The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIgnorance is more costly to any State than education.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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 negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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 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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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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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