…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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose 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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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