Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin not at the top.

Author: Booker T. Washington

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down the other is pulling up.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Character not circumstances makes the man.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

There is no such thing in life as normal.