Booker T. Washington Quotes

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

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

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

The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

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