Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
– Booker T. Washington
Character is power.
– Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
– Booker T. Washington
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
– Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
– Booker T. Washington
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.
– Booker T. Washington
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
– Booker T. Washington
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
– Booker T. Washington
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
– Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
– 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.
– Booker T. Washington
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
– Booker T. Washington
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.
– Booker T. Washington
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.
– Booker T. Washington
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
– Booker T. Washington
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
– Booker T. Washington
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.