You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Character is power.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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 inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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