It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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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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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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No 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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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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