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. WASHINGTONSuccess waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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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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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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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