You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Character is power.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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