Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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.
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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.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the 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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man 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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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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