21 Quotes by Booker Washington
- If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
- Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- 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.
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
- Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
- Character is 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.
- Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- We must reinforce argument with 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.
- There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
- To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
- Success is not measured by the height one has reached, but by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles overcome along the way.
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