Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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