Success always leaves footprints.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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 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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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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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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 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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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