Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess always leaves footprints.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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