Booker T. Washington Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
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“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
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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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“Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.”
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“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”
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“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.”
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“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
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“There is another class of coloured 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.”
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“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”
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“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
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“Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
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“In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.”
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“You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.”
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“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”
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“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”
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“There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”
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“Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred”
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“A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.”
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“Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.”
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“A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.”
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“There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
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“We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.”
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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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“It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.”
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“I believe that 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, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.”
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“You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.”
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“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
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“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”
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