Booker T. Washington quotes

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)
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
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. (Booker T. Washington)
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
Booker T. Washington
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
Booker T. Washington
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. (Booker T. Washington)
From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
Booker T. Washington
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Let down your bucket where you are.
Booker T. Washington
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for and dying for, if need be is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful.
Booker T. Washington