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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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