No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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"If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother."

- Booker T. Washington

Love

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

""If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.""

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

""Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.""

- Booker T. Washington

Happiness

"The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least."

- Booker T. Washington

Happiness

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"It is not what you look like on the outside, but what you are on the inside that counts."

- Beauty and the Beast

Belief

"It is the heart that makes a person beautiful, not the outward appearance."

- Beauty and the Beast

Belief

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

Belief

"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."

- Might Guy

Belief

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

- Josephus Daniels

Belief