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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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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
