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

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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.

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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

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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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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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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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