More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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.
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.
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.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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 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.
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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.
