I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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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.
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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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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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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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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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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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