There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONDecide 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.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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The 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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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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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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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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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