I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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