A List of Famous Booker T. Washington Quotes By Reference

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Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

Character
2

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

Character
3

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

Excellence
4

I believe that 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, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

Booker T. Washington

Encouragement
5

I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

Hatred
6

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

Service
7

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

Rewards
8

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

Pride
9

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

Things and Little Things
10

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Success
11

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Booker T. Washington

Ability
12

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

Strength
13

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

Booker T. Washington

Influence
14

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

Prejudice
15

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

Language
16

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

Brotherhood

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Character is power.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I believe that 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, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.