32 Quotations by Booker T. Washington
- 1. Character is power.

- 2. Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

- 3. Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them.

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

- 5. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that ...

- 6. Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that yo ...

- 7. Freedom cannot be given; it must be purchased.

- 8. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes ...

- 9. I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself, I would leave a record of which my children would ...

- 10. I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

- 11. I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

- 12. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

- 13. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in al ...

- 14. In proportion as one loses himself in [a great cause]...in the same degree does he get the highest h ...
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- 15. In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previ ...

- 16. No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or t ...

- 17. No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the pla ...

- 18. No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the pla ...

- 19. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a ...

- 20. Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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