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.
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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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 shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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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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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Character is power.
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