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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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 race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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.
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.
