I learned what education was expected to do for an individual. Before going there I had a good deal of the then rather prevalent idea among our people that to secure an education meant to have a good, easy time, free from all necessity for manual labor. At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labor, but learned to love labor, not alone for its financial value, but for labor’s own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.
Booker T. WashingtonI shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
Booker T. WashingtonI will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
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Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
Booker T. WashingtonI have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
Booker T. WashingtonEgotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity
Booker T. WashingtonIn order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
Booker T. WashingtonI 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.
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