Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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