"That is the lesson that you all want to learn. If you do not learn it now, in a large degree you will be a failure in life. ... You want to fight it out. Now if you mean to get your diploma, you are going to have a hard time. Some of you are going to be without shoes, without a hat, without proper clothing of any kind. You will get discouraged because you have not as a nice dress or as nice a hat as this or that person. I would not give a snap of my finger for a person who would give up for that. The big thing for you to do is to fight it out . Get something in your head and don't worry about what you can get to put on it. The clothes will come afterward....
"One of the saddest things in life is to see an individual who has grown to old age, with no profession, with no calling whatever from which he is sure of getting an independent living. It is sad to see such individuals without money, without homes, in their old age simply because they did not learn the lesson of saving money and getting for themselves a beautiful home when they ought to have done this. And so, all through life --we can point to many people who have not learned this lesson that for whatever they undertake they must pay the price which the world asks of them if they would succeed . If we are going to succeed we must pay the price for what we get; and he who accomplishes the most, accomplishes it in an humble and straightforward way, by sticking to what he has, undertaken . He who does this in the end will find that he has achieved a tremendous success."
Chapter 24. "Cultivating Stable Habits " CHARACTER BUILDING by Booker T. Washington (1902)

Wednesday, June 7, 2017
FIGHT IT OUT!
"That is the lesson that you all want to learn. If you do not learn it now, in a large degree you will be a failure in life. ... You want to fight it out. Now if you mean to get your diploma, you are going to have a hard time. Some of you are going to be without shoes, without a hat, without proper clothing of any kind. You will get discouraged because you have not as a nice dress or as nice a hat as this or that person. I would not give a snap of my finger for a person who would give up for that. The big thing for you to do is to fight it out . Get something in your head and don't worry about what you can get to put on it. The clothes will come afterward....
"One of the saddest things in life is to see an individual who has grown to old age, with no profession, with no calling whatever from which he is sure of getting an independent living. It is sad to see such individuals without money, without homes, in their old age simply because they did not learn the lesson of saving money and getting for themselves a beautiful home when they ought to have done this. And so, all through life --we can point to many people who have not learned this lesson that for whatever they undertake they must pay the price which the world asks of them if they would succeed . If we are going to succeed we must pay the price for what we get; and he who accomplishes the most, accomplishes it in an humble and straightforward way, by sticking to what he has, undertaken . He who does this in the end will find that he has achieved a tremendous success."
Chapter 24. "Cultivating Stable Habits " CHARACTER BUILDING by Booker T. Washington (1902)