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26 quotes by Booker T. Washington

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

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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... →

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Character is power.

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

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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to... →

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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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