It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from 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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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