Booker T. Washington Quotes
Browse 10 quotes from Booker T. Washington, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“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.”
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
“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.”
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
