My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNot how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with 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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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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