Booker T. Washington Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Success, Determination, Giving Up

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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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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  Courage, Silence, Suffering

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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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  Ideas, People, Succeed

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Success always leaves footprints.

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  Footprint

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• Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

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  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

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• The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

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  Men, Important, Success And Failure

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• 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.

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  Race, Diversity, Effort

  Booker T. Washington (1982). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14”, p.66, University of Illinois Press

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• An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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  Clarity, Communicate, Application

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1984). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15”, p.350, University of Illinois Press

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• Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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  Happiness, Helping Others, Compassion

  Booker T. Washington (2016). “Up from Slavery”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

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  Self, Patient, Calm

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, University of Illinois Press

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• Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

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  College, Men, Errors

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• Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

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  Ignorance, States

  Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”

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

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Up from Slavery".

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• Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

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  Use, Helping, Lays

  Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”

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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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  Book, Men, Equal

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.242, University of Illinois Press

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• I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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  Hate, Men, Permit

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• The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

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  Famous Inspirational, Race, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.158, University of Illinois Press

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

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  Inspirational, Work, Writing

  Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 Sept. 1895

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• The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

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  Struggle, Race, Progress

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• We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

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  Ignorance, Clouds, Selfishness

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.96, University of Illinois Press

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

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  Life, Leadership, Power

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

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  Intelligent, Hands, Ideas

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• Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

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  African American, World, Remember

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• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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  Education, Race, Independence

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