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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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.
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.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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.
