If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONCharacter is power.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON