Booker T. Washington Quotes

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

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

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Character is power.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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

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

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 white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

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