More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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.
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.
