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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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.
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.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
