Quotes from Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Booker T. Washington
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
- Booker T. Washington
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
- Booker T. Washington
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
- Booker T. Washington
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
- Booker T. Washington
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
- Booker T. Washington
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.
- Booker T. Washington
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
- Booker T. Washington
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
- Booker T. Washington
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
- Booker T. Washington