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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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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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