Quotes by Booker T. Washington

Let down your bucket where you are.

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

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them.

Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment.

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

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for - and dying for, if need be - is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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.

Character is power.