Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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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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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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