It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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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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