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. 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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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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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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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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Character is power.
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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 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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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