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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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