You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Character is power.
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