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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

Booker T. Washington

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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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
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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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
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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Attention Life Remote Small Success
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
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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Color Hate Men
Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Agricultural Condition Incomparably Population Sicily
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
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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Economic Education Independence Politics Race Religion
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
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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Learning Measurement Myself Position Success
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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