Character Building Quotes

“Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragements he would not give up. Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you. Those”
― Booker T. Washington, Character Building: An African American Heritage Book

“To do the most that lies in you, you must go with a heart and head full of hope and faith in the world, believing that there is work for you to do, believing that you are the person to accomplish that work, and the one who is going to accomplish it.”
― Booker T. Washington, Character Building

“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, Character Building

“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”
― Booker T. Washington, Character Building

“This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.”
― Booker T. Washington, Character Building

“Do not be satisfied with second-hand or third-hand things in life. Do not be satisfied until you have put yourselves into that atmosphere where you can seize and hold on to the very highest and most beautiful things that can be got out of life.”
― Booker T. Washington, Character Building