The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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