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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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.
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.
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.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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.
