I have never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed.
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There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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 overcome while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race.
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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.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward
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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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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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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 while trying to succeed.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man
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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.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts
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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else
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Character is power.
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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him
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I have learnt 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 overcome while trying to succeed
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him
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All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut.
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We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history.
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