Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company. ― Booker T. Washington

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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mahatma Gandhi

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. ― Booker T. Washington

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ― Booker T. Washington

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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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

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

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