Booker T. Washington Quotes

"Character, not circumstances, make the man."
-Booker T. Washington in Character quotes.

"Character is power."
-Booker T. Washington in Character quotes.

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

"Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life: it's measured by the obstacles you overcome."
-Booker T. Washington

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

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. "
-Booker T. Washington

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
-Booker T. Washington

"Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink 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 withoutstaying down with him.— Booker T. Washington."
-Booker T. Washington in Leadership quotes.

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

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
-Booker T. Washington

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

"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."
-Booker T. Washington