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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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 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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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