Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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