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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.

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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.
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 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.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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.
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.