Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Character is power.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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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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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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