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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.

Booker T. Washington

…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
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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Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
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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Attention Life Success
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Foundation Mean Thinking
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Calm Greatest Patient Possession Self
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

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