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Booker T. Washington
American
Educator
About the author
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Dreams
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,
American
Educator
#Life
#Success
#Day
#Attention
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Responsibility
#Help
#Trust
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Dignity
#Writing
#Race
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.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Man
#Reward
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,
American
Educator
#Life
#Will
#Youth
#Race
#Injury
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Want
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Man
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Man
#Soul
#Hate
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Character
#Man
#Circumstances
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Work
#Nothing
#Result
#Worth
#Hard work
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Excellence
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Life
#Labor
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.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Life
#Success
#Trying
#Succeed
#Obstacles
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Character
#Power
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Independence
#Education
#Religion
#Race
#Politics
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#People
#Quality
#Company
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,
American
Educator
#Want
#Men
#Brothers
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.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Life
#Success
#Obstacles
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Man
We must reinforce argument with results.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Argument
#Results
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.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Words
#English
#Unconscious
#Vocabulary
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Life
#Earth
#Influence
#Power
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
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,
American
Educator
#Will
#World
#End
#Race
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington,
American
Educator
#Man