"An inch of progress is worth a yard…" — Booker T. Washington
"An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint."
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102 Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington has 102 quotes on this site.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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…
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in…
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the…
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit…
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it…
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift…
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More Complaint Quotes
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one of 188 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
— Honore de Balzac
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp…
— Robert Burns
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I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But,…
— Kirstie Alley
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."
— Van Jones
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this…
— Susan Ward
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young…
— Olive Schreiner
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was…
— Lance Armstrong
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Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
— Jonathan Swift
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