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

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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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

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

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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.

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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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