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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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.
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.
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.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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.
