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The 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.

Booker T. Washington

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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Confidence Experience Gained Self Way
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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