Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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