Quotes 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.

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

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.

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

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

Character is power.

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