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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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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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 is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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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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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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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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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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