The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIgnorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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 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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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Character is power.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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