The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Character is power.
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