47 Great Quotes By Booker T. Washington That Will Mould Your Personality
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 overcome while trying to succeed.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company
Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Success always leaves footprints.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
Character is power.
I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him.
I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
