More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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 that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
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.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
