The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Character is power.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Character is power.
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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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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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