189 Quotes by Booker T. Washington

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.

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

I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.