The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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