Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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 early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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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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