A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. 

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

“The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.” 

“Success always leaves footprints.” 

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him

“A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.”

 “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.”

“Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!”

 “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.”

“I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.”

“I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.”

. “It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.”

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.

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

 Opportunities never come a second time, nor do they wait for our leisure

We should not permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities

Cast down your bucket where you are. 

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.