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Frederick Douglass Quotes

Frederick Douglass quotes about work

American Author February 14, 1817 – February 20, 1895

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[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...]There is no royal road to perfection. Frederick Douglass
The control of events has been taken out of our hands...we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass quote: "People might not get all they work for in this world, but they..."
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass

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