Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Quotes

• 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.

• Success isn't measured by the position you reach in life: it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• I have learnt 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 overcome while trying to succeed.

• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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

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

• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.