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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.