Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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