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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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