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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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