If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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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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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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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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Character is power.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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