Quotes by Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Helpful

Humanity

Inspirational Life

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Individual

Integrity

Race

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Inches

Progress

Yards

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

Race

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Character

Circumstances

Men

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Bottom

Common

Labor

Don’t ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

Hate

Men

Peace

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 discouragement he would not give up.

Determination

Giving Up

Success

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Athlete

Inspirational

Leadership

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

Ideas

Return

Slavery

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Believe

Black History

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Book

Bottom

Calm

Character

Children

Christian

Circumstances

Civilization

Clouds

Common

Compassion

Courage

Determination

Differences

Doe

Done

Dream

Dying

Education

Empathy

Encouragement

Enough

Equal

Ethics

Evil

Exercise

Family

Food

Get Well

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Giving Up

Grudge

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Hands

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Happy

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Hate

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Quotes by Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Don’t ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

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 discouragement he would not give up.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

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