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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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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 all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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 shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Character is power.
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