Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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

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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

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

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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