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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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 do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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