Booker T. Washington Quotes
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“I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.”
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“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”
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“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
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— Booker T. Washington
“Success always leaves footprints.”
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— Booker T. Washington
— Booker T. Washington
In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
— Booker T. Washington
— Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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— Booker T. Washington
— Booker T. Washington
“If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.”
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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“We must reinforce argument with results.”
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“To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.”
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“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”
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“It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.”
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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“I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.”
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— Booker T. Washington
— Booker T. Washington
The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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— Booker T. Washington
— Booker T. Washington
“Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.”
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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.
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— Booker T. Washington
— Booker T. Washington
— Booker T. Washington
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”
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— Booker T. Washington
“There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”
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“A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.”
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“Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.”
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“Each one should remember there is a chance for him.”
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— Booker T. Washington
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