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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for and dying for, if need be is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful.Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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 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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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