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Booker T. Washington Quotes
- 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.
- Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
- Character is power.
- Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
- 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.
- The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
- 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.
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- 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.
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