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Booker T. Washington [1856-1915] American

Rank: 11
Educator

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.

Success, Life, Power, Alone, Anger, Dreams, Education, Good, Independence, Politics, Religion, Strength, Trust, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.	Work	101
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.		102
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.	Life, Success	103
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.	Anger	104
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.	Strength	105
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.	Life	106
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.	Alone, Good	107
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.		108
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.		109
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.	Trust	110
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.		111
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.	Success	112
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.		113
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.		114
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.	Success	115
Character is power.	Power	116
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.	Power	117
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.	Dreams	118
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.		119
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.		120
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.	Education, Independence, Politics, Religion	121
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.		122
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.		123
We must reinforce argument with results.		124
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.		125

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