Booker T. Washington Quotes (40 Quotes)

We must reinforce argument with results.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

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

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

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.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

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

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

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

Let down your bucket where you are.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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.

Character is power.

Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment.

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

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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.

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.

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.Its wonderful when the people believe in their leader.Its more wonderful when the leader believes in their peopleYou cant hold a man down withoutstaying down with him. Booker T. Washington

Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

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

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.

Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder . . . wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker. . . . There is no escape -- man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

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.