There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Quote by Booker T Washington

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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple...

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple...

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must...

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must...

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let...

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let...

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple...

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple...

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers,...

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers,...

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

We must reinforce argument with results.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to...

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to...

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the...

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the...

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of...

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of...

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position...

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position...

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

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.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of...

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of...

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than...

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than...

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.