Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

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

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 Quote

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

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.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

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

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

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.
- Booker T. Washington Quote

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington Quote