Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Thursday, April 27, 2014 – Booker T. Washington
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Thursday, April 27, 2014 – Booker T. Washington
“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
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“Character is power.”
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“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”
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“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”
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“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
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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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“If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.”
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“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.”
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“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
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“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
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“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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“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”
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“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
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“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”
Wikipedia: Booker T. Washington
