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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Individual Integrity Race
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Motivational Success
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Best Different History Race Willing World
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Attention Evil Giving
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Class Jobs Race
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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Education Greatness Growth Man Old Woman
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Done Race
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Hands Ideas Intelligent
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

End Himself Race Regard Willing World
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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Essential Progress Purity Separate
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Ethics People Stronger
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Life Oneself Surprise
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit

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