The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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