Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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.
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