Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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