There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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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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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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The 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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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