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Cast down your bucket where you are.
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11 quotes by Booker T. Washington · clear filters
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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
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I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Circulated everywhere as if you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else, which appears in none of Washington's books, addresses or letters. This is the sentence in Up from Slavery it compresses. The paraphrase is not unfair, but it is not a quotation, and it drops the second half -- the claim that oppressing the unfortunate makes the oppressor weak -- which is the part he was actually arguing.
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There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.
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We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.
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Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you.
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Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.
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If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.
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I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.
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No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.
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Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.