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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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.
