Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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I 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.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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Character is power.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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