An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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