quotes by 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 overcome while trying to succeed."
— Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery: An Autobiography)

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."
— 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

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
— 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 you have overcome while trying to succeed."
— Booker T. Washington

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. "
— Booker T. Washington

"The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy."
— Booker T. Washington

"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

"It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges."
— Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery: an autobiography)

"I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done."
— Booker T. Washington (Up from Slavery: an autobiography)

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
— 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 you have overcome while trying to succeed."
— Booker T. Washington (Booker T. Washington The Negro in Business)

"In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."
— 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.""
— Booker T. Washington

"Success always leaves footprints."
— 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"
— 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 you have overcome while trying to succeed."
— Booker T. Washington

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"The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy""
— Booker T. Washington