19 Quotes By Booker T. Washington


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

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Booker T. Washington on dreams

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 on education

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

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 on life

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 on life

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 on men

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 on politics

Character is power.
Booker T. Washington on power

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

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 on religion

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington on strength

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 on success

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 on success

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 on success

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 on trust

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

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 on success

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington on success