Booker T. Washington

"If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother."

- Booker T. Washington

"No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

""Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.""

- Booker T. Washington

"The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least."

- Booker T. Washington

"Character is power."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Character is what you do when no one is watching. Let today reflect your true strength."

- Booker T. Washington

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else – and trust they will do the same."

- Booker T. Washington

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T. Washington

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

- Booker T. Washington

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position reached in life, as by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed."

- 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."

- Booker T. Washington

"Professor Carver, like the other men I have mentioned, is of unmixed African blood, and is one of the most thoroughly scientific men of the Negro race with whom I am acquainted. Whenever anyone who takes a scientific interest in cotton. Whenever any one who takes a scientific interest in cotton growing, or in the natural history of this part of the world, comes to visit Tuskegee, he invariably seeks out and consults Professor Carver."

- Booker T. Washington

"I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed."

- Booker T. Washington

"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."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

"In proportion as one renders service he becomes great."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Booker T. Washington

"The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house."

- Booker T. Washington

"Although Professor Carver impresses every one who meets him with the extent of his knowledge in the matter of plant life, he is quite the most modest man I have ever met."

- Booker T. Washington