Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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