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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess always leaves footprints.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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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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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Character is power.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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