Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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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 shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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 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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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