The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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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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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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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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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 are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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