I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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 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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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