Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAt 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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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Character is power.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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