Booker T. Washington Quotes

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

Character is power.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

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.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

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

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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