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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody 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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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
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The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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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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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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