There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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 man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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