I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe must reinforce argument with results.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Character is power.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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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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