We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Related Topics
Obstacles
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
-
-
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
-
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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 -
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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 -
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
