Quotes from Booker T. Washington
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.
- Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
- Booker T. Washington
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
- Booker T. Washington
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
- Booker T. Washington
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.
- Booker T. Washington
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- Booker T. Washington
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
- Booker T. Washington
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
- Booker T. Washington
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
- Booker T. Washington
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.
- Booker T. Washington