Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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