In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWhenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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