No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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 always leaves footprints.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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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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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.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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