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Motivational Booker T Washington Quotes And Sayings

Booker T Washington Quotes:- Booker T Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States.

Inspirational Booker T Washington Quotes

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the everyday things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Inspirational Booker T Washington Quotes

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of high, simple and useful life.
Booker T Washington

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
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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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Famous Booker T Washington Quotes

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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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.
Booker T Washington

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.
Booker T Washington

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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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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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Best Booker T Washington Quotes

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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T Washington

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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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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