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

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

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

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

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

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.