Booker T. Washington

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• I have learnt 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 overcome while trying to succeed.

  Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter II: Boyhood Days

  • Success

• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

  Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them.

  • Morality

• 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.

  • Motivation & Goals

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

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• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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