Booker T Washington Quotes
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~ Booker T. Washington Quote
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
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.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Character, not circumstances, make the man.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
We must reinforce argument with results.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
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.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
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.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
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.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
~ Booker T. Washington Quote
