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Top 15 Quotes to Remember by Booker T Washington

April 5, 2019 by abolden

On April 5, 1856, Booker T. Washington was born. He is recognized as a great leader of the African American community, founder of Tuskegee University, a famous alumnus of Hampton University, and so much more.

 

Top 15 Quotes

  1. The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. – Booker T. Washington
  2. 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 – Booker T. Washington
  3. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington
  4. Character, not circumstances, makes the man. – Booker T. Washington
  5.  Opportunities never come a second time, nor do they wait for our leisure. – Booker T. Washington
  6.  Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
  7. Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. – Booker T. Washington
  8. There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. – Booker T. Washington
  9.  Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. – Booker T. Washington
  10. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. – Booker T. Washington
  11. The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do. – Booker T. Washington
  12. In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world. – Booker T. Washington
  13. We must reinforce argument with results. – Booker T. Washington
  14. There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. – Booker T. Washington
  15. We should not permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.– Booker T. Washington

 

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