There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLet our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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