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All Quotes by author - Booker T. Washington
" Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. "
Yourself
Quality
Good
" At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. "
Our
Politics
Race
" Character is power. "
Character
Power
" Character, not circumstances, makes the man. "
Circumstances
Character
Man
" Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top. "
Common
Bottom
Begin
" Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. "
Way
Common
Excellence
" Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. "
Trust
Responsibility
Place
" If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. "
Going
Dreams
Hard
" If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. "
You
Want
Up
" 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. "
Succeed
Life
Much
" I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. "
Me
Hate
Anger
" 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. "
Done
Life
Youth
" 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. "
Without
Reward
Place
" No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. "
Writing
Poem
Field
" Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. "
Result
Nothing
Hard Work
" One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. "
Him
Ditch
Hold
" Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. "
Day
Small Things
Small
" 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. "
Obstacles
Success
Life
" The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race. "
Done
End
Race
" There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. "
Pulling
Two
Up
" There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. "
Life
Power
Simple
" To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. "
You
Hold
Him
" We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. "
Want
Men
Color
" We must reinforce argument with results. "
Argument
Results
Reinforce
" You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. "
Man
Down
You
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