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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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.
