Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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