Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONStart where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Character is power.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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