If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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 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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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