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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Attention Life Remote Small Success
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Family Inspiration Success
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Best Different History Race Willing World
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Habit Heart Hold Narrow Unfortunate
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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Ability Character Himself Politics Possession Right Time
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
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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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Leadership Life Power
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Character Circumstance Man
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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