All Booker T. Washington Quotes
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
87% of people like this quote
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.
Booker T. Washington in
Success
86% of people like this quote
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
76% of people like this quote
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington
73% of people like this quote
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.
Booker T. Washington
71% of people like this quote
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.
Booker T. Washington
61% of people like this quote
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington
57% of people like this quote
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Booker T. Washington
57% of people like this quote
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
56% of people like this quote
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
55% of people like this quote
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
54% of people like this quote
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington in
Work
53% of people like this quote
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington
52% of people like this quote
Related authors