Character, not circumstance, makes the person. ― Booker T. Washington

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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. ― Booker T. Washington

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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. ― Booker T. Washington

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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others. — Lewis Carroll

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I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable.

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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 have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

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As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light. — Susan Jeffers

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