In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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The 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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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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