Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Character is power.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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