If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess 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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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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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…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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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 early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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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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We 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 wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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