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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.

Booker T. Washington

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Character is power.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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