Quotes
Authors
Booker T. Washington

"Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way."

Source : Suresh Srivastva, David L. Cooperrider, Case Western Reserve University (1990). “Appreciative management and leadership: the power of positive thought and action in organizations”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Booker T. Washington

#Struggle Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes #Race Quotes

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”
“She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.”
“Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.”
“Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.”
“I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.”
“I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.”
“Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.”

Source : John Newton, William Cowper (1856). “Olney Hymns: In Three Parts”, p.48
“The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.”

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