Booker T. Washington Quotes
Born into slavery in 1856, Booker T. Washington went on to become the most influential black leader and educator of his time.
(1856 - 1915)
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Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
[One Day]
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
[Begin]
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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I am afraid that 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.
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I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
[Encouragement]
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
[Hatred]
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim "Do not get others to do what you can do yourself." My motto on the other hand is, "do not do that which others can do as well."
[Confidence]
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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