Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWhenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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The 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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