Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONExcellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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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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