QUOTES by Booker T Washington
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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”
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“The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.”
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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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“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 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 overcome while trying to succeed.”
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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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“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
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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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“Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!”
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“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
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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 long keep the world from what it wants.”
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“My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.”
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“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
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“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”
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“The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges
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“I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.”
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“Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.”
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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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In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
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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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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Opportunities never come a second time, nor do they wait for our leisure
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To be one with God is to be like God. Our real religious striving then, should be to become one with God; sharing with Him in our poor humble way His qualities and attributes
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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