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