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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONStart where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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Character is power.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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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 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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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Character is power.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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