Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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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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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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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