Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 overcome while trying to succeed.

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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.

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

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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.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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