There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught me, in fact, that no man should be pitied because, every day in his life, he faces a hard,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“Success is not to be measured so much by the status one has attained in life but rather by the obstacles one… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
“Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
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 Copy Share
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
“it takes no more time to be polite to every one than it does to be rude.” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
