Quotes by : Booker T. Washington

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the....

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

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do....

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for....

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life....

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

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that....