More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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.
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.
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
