Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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Character is power.
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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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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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