Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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 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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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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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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