"Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures……" — W. E. B. Du Bois
"Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities."
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113 Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois has 113 quotes on this site.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness…
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words…
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not…
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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More Disappointment Quotes
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I…
— Christian Bale
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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience…
— Joseph Addison
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
— Michael Bergin
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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