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. WASHINGTONStart where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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