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

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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

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

- Booker T. Washington

Belief

"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

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"The youth of this generation have a greater capacity for obedience than any previous generation."

- Elder David A. Bednar

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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

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