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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Booker T. Washington

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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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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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Character Men Skill
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
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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Character Hands Heart
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Heart Prejudice Race
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Family Inspiration Success
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Go Letting Men Stay Strong
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Art Care Live Love Yourself
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
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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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Help Humanity Life Worth
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

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