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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
-
-
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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 -
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON






