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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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.
