Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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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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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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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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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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Character is power.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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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 happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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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 I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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