A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen the signal: "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back: "Cast down your bucket where you are." A second and a third time the signal, "Water, water, send us water!" ran up from the distressed vessel, and was answered: "Cast down your bucket where you are." The captain of the distressed vessel at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition I would say: "Cast down your bucket where your are, cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all the race by whom we are surrounded."
We shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
- Booker T. Washington
Philadelphia Public Speaker
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
- Booker T. Washington
The mind of the scholar,
if he would leave
it large and liberal,
should come in contact
with other minds.
- Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of
reading something in a book which was significant to him,
but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there,
but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again,
though he buy the book and ransack every page.
- Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scholars spend all of their energies
on saying Yes and No, on criticism
of what others have thought-
they themselves no longer think.
- Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
At the bottom of education,
at the bottom of politics,
even at the bottom of religion,
there must be for our race
economic independence.
- Quote by Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade
my soul by making me hate him.
- Quote by Booker T. Washington
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.
- Quote by Booker T. Washington
In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life. It goes on.
- Quote by Robert Frost
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