The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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

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 reward.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I have learned 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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We must reinforce argument with results.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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

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

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

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

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

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

Character is power.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

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

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.