Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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.Booker T. Washington
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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