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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
― Booker T. Washington
Determination
Waiting
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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.
― Booker T. Washington
Believe
Men
Thinking
Booker T. Washington
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
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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.
― Booker T. Washington
Hate
Men
Race
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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.
― Booker T. Washington
Art
Caring
Volunteer
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
― Booker T. Washington
Positive
Hate
Angel
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
― Booker T. Washington
Positive
Strength
Success
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
― Booker T. Washington
Character
Men
Skills
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Motivational
Obstacles
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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.
― Booker T. Washington
Running
Long
World
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
― Booker T. Washington
Hurt
Doe
Grudge
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
― Booker T. Washington
Progress
Yards
Inches
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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.
― Booker T. Washington
Race
Diversity
Effort
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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
― Booker T. Washington
Men
Hatred
AfricanAmerican
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
― Booker T. Washington
Christian
Thinking
Hands
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
― Booker T. Washington
Character
Men
Circumstances
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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.
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Work
Writing
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
― Booker T. Washington
Knowing
Enough
WhereYouAre
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Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
― Booker T. Washington
Ignorance
Men
Ignorant
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Leadership
Athlete
Booker T. Washington