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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

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

By Booker T. Washington
I have never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed.

By 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 overcome while trying to succeed. Out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race.

By Booker T. Washington
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

By 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.

By Booker T. Washington
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.

By Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

By Booker T. Washington
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

By Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

By Booker T. Washington
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary

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

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

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

By Booker T. Washington
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts

By Booker T. Washington
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 while trying to succeed.

By Booker T. Washington
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.

By Booker T. Washington
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him

By 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

By Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else

By Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him

By Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

By Booker T. Washington
I have learnt 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 overcome while trying to succeed

By Booker T. Washington
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him

By Booker T. Washington
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

By Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man

By Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

By Booker T. Washington
Character is power.

By Booker T. Washington