Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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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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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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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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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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 you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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