Explore Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

We must reinforce argument with results.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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.

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

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

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

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

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

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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