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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Character is power.
Success always leaves footprints.
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
We must reinforce argument with results.
Do not do that which others can do as well.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
