1. Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
2. Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
3. I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
4. There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.
5. The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
6. Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
7. Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
8. 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 overcome while trying to succeed.
9. I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
10. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
11. Character is power.
12. Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
13. There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
2. Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
3. I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
4. There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.
5. The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
6. Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
7. Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
8. 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 overcome while trying to succeed.
9. I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
10. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
11. Character is power.
12. Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
13. There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
