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One Quotes by Booker T. Washington
- In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
- I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for…
- I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
- 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…
- A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
- I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe…
- Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
- 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…
- Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that…
- In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
- I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always…
- The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is…
- In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets…
- It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
- Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong;…
- The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and…
- No one can degrade us except ourselves.
- Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the…
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome…
- In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to…
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