You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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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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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds 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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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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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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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.
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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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