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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Affirmation Learning Myself Thinking
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Inches Progress Yards
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Christian Hands Thinking
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Believe Done Race
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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Men Overcoming Want
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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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Essential Progress Purity Separate
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Angel Hate Positive

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