Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess always leaves footprints.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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Character is power.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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