An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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 thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Character is power.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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