Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Character is power.
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