More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
