If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Character is power.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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