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

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

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

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.