Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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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 early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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