Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLiving 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.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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