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.
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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate 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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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