Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe 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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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Character is power.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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