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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity
— Booker T. Washington
The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
— Booker T. Washington
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
— Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
— Booker T. Washington
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
— Booker T. Washington
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
— Booker T. Washington
Education is not a thing apart from life - not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.
— Booker T. Washington
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate 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
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
— Booker T. Washington
Success always leaves footprints.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
— Booker T. Washington
If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
— Napoleon Hill
That my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not - of
— Booker T. Washington
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
— Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
— 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.
— Booker T. Washington
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
— Booker T. Washington
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
— Booker T. Washington
I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.
— Booker T. Washington
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
— Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
— Booker T. Washington
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
— Booker T. Washington
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
— Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
— Booker T. Washington
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.
— Booker T. Washington
One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them.
— Booker T. Washington
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
— Booker T. Washington
Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!
— Booker T. Washington
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
— Booker T. Washington
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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healthy. I believe that when one can grow to the point where he loves his work, this gives him a kind of strength that is most valuable.
— Booker T. Washington
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
— Booker T. Washington
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
— 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
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
— Booker T. Washington
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
— 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
An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.
— Booker T. Washington
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
— 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
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
— Booker T. Washington
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
— Booker T. Washington
the most miserable are those who do the
— Booker T. Washington
Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I
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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
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
— Booker T. Washington
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
— Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
— Booker T. Washington
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
— Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
— Booker T. Washington
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.
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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
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
— Booker T. Washington
The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle. I
— Booker T. Washington
Character is power.
— Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed
— 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
The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.
— Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.
— Booker T. Washington
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
— Booker T. Washington
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
— Booker T. Washington
In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him.
— Booker T. Washington
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
— 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
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
— Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
— Booker T. Washington
The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.
— 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
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company
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rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.
— Booker T. Washington
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
— Booker T. Washington
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
— 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
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
— Booker T. Washington
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
— Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
— Booker T. Washington
