Booker T. Washington

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

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Booker T. Washington

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

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Booker T. Washington

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

Booker T. Washington

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Booker T. Washington

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

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.

Booker T. Washington

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