Best Booker T. Washington Quotes
- You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when… Black
- Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be… Best
- Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough. Knowing
- The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining… Circumstances
- Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more… Believe
- If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the… Achieved
- If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. Dream
- An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint. Complaint
- An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. Abstraction
- Do not do that which others can do as well. Funny
- Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears… Always Know
- By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea,… All
- Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character. Activity
- Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry… Ago
- Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else. Help
- Character is power. Character
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Charity
- I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Allow
- 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… Black History
- Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Effort
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Black
- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Brotherhood
- 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… Advanced
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Dignity
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. Another Man
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