Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Character is power.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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