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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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