"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him."
"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."
"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs."
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. "
"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."
"Character is Power"
Footnote: These quotes were taking from the following websites: wikipedia.org and about.com
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Thanks for sharing these great quotes. I love the 3rd one.
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