Booker T. Washington Quotes - 9quotes.com

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Written by Booker T. Washington
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Written by Booker T. Washington
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Written by Booker T. Washington
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.
Written by Booker T. Washington
Character is power.
Written by Booker T. Washington
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Written by Booker T. Washington
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Written by Booker T. Washington
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Written by Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Written by Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Written by Booker T. Washington
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Written by Booker T. Washington
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Written by Booker T. Washington
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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Written by Booker T. Washington
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Written by Booker T. Washington
We must reinforce argument with results.
Written by Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Written by Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Written by Booker T. Washington
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Written by Booker T. Washington
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Written by Booker T. Washington
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Written by Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Written by Booker T. Washington
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Written by Booker T. Washington
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Written by Booker T. Washington
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Written by Booker T. Washington
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Written by Booker T. Washington

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