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. WASHINGTONMy whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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 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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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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.
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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 power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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