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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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 highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
