The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONDecide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFrom 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. WASHINGTONSuccess waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe 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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONMen may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess always leaves footprints.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON