In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do no….

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction..

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals..

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are..

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth..

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man..

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as wh….

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patien….

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to….

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….

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him..

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is..

I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no….

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it ….

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations w….

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work..

I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes on….

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized..

Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to d….

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him..

Ignorance is more costly to any State than education..