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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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.
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.
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.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
