More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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.
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.
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.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
