Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt 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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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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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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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