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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate 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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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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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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