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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONHolding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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