Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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