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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo one can degrade us except ourselves.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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