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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.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Best Decision World Yourself
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Art Care Live Love Yourself
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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Attention Evil Giving
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
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.
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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
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
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
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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Escape Life People Strong Touch Weakness Yourself
Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Mastered Problem Score Understand
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Progress Race Struggle
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
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.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
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 learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Men
I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Convinced Heart Message Mutual Progress
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Go Letting Men Stay Strong
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Guide Himself Necessary Position

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