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

Success, Life, Obstacles

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Character is power.
Booker T. Washington

Power, Character

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington

Yourself, Someone, Else

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Good, Alone, Yourself

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

Success, Life, Trying

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

Hate, Him, Soul

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington

Work, Nothing, Hard

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington

Him, Down, Hold

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington

Strength, Down, Two

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

Common, Excellence, Uncommon

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

Trust, Help, Him

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington

Him, Down, Cannot

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

Life, Success, Small

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

Life, Done, Him

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Common, Labor

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

Education, Religion, Politics

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

Writing, Dignity, Race

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

End, Done, Individual

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington

Character, Makes

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Booker T. Washington

Dreams, Hard, Read

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington

Him, Down, Stay

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

Long, Place, Moral

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington

Power, Life, Simple

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

Men, Another, Color

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

Words, Down, English

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: April 5, 1856

Died: November 15, 1915

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