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Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking
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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Long Running World
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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Ethics People Stronger
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness

Character is power.

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