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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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