No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Character is power.
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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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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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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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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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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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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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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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