An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONDecide 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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Character is power.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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