I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNever let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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