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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNever let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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 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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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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