189 Quotes by Booker T. Washington

"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."

"There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all."

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"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."

"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."

"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life."

"Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come"

"To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him."

"Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it."

"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."