Booker T. Washington Quotes

• 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.

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• I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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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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• Character is power.

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• Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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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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  Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

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• We must reinforce argument with results.

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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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• Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

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• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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• There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

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• Any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

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• Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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• Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

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Booker T. Washington (36)

Birth:	5th April, 1865
Death:	14th November, 1915
Nationality:	African, American
Profession:	Author, Politician

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