An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Character is power.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON