More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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.
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.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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.
