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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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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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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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