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Booker T. Washington Quotes

Type: Educator Quotes Category: American Educator Quotes Date of Birth: April 5, 1856 Date of Death: November 15, 1915 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Booker T. Washington Related Authors: Leon Kass Michael Pollan Leland Stanford Temple Grandin Horace Mann John W. Gardner Stephen Cohen

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. 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. Booker T. Washington Character is power. Booker T. Washington Character, not circumstances, makes the man. Booker T. Washington Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. Booker T. Washington Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T. Washington 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 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 I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. Booker T. Washington I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. Booker T. Washington If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. 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. 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. 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. Booker T. Washington No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Booker T. Washington One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. 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. 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. 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 while trying to succeed. 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. Booker T. Washington There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Booker T. Washington To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. 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. Booker T. Washington 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 We must reinforce argument with results. Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington

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