Booker T. Washington Quotes

American - Educator | April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915

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

Booker T. Washington

WorkHard WorkResultWorthNothing

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.

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LifeSuccessSucceedObstacles

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

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HateSoulManAngerMeMy Soul

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

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ExcellenceWayCommonUncommonThing

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

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GoodAloneQualityYourselfPeople

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

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YourselfSomeoneYouLiftWantUp

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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LifeSuccessSmall ThingsDaySmall

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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CharacterManCircumstancesMakes

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

LifeSuccessObstaclesOvercomeHe

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

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ManYouDownHimWithoutHold

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

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WritingDignityRacePoemProsper

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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ManDownHimWithoutHoldDitch

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