Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915)

African-American Educator, Reformer
Points of Light Foundation Extra Mile Honoree

birthdate: April 5
birthplace:
near Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Virgini

QUOTES

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Character is power.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

 

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