I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWhenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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.
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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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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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