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Booker T. Washington
American
Educator
Born:
Apr 5
,
1856
Died:
Nov 14
,
1915
Down
He
Life
Man
Success
You
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I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
Me
Man
Soul
Hate
My Soul
Shall
Allow
Him
Making
Belittle
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington
Alone
Good
Quality
Yourself
People
Better
Bad
Good Quality
Than
Company
Associate
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. Washington
Work
Hard Work
Worth
Result
Nothing
Having
Except
Hard
Ever
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
Life
Success
Overcome
He
Obstacles
Reached
Which
Success Is
Much
Measured
Position
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
Life
Success
Overcome
Had
He
Obstacles
Reached
Learned
Trying
Which
While
Succeed
Success Is
Much
Measured
Position
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Booker T. Washington
Character
Man
Circumstances
Makes
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.
Booker T. Washington
Life
Success
Day
Small Things
Every Day
Every
Rather
Small
Uncommon
Attention
Remote
Than
Us
Large
Founded
Nearest
Things
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
Man
Down
One-Man
Ditch
Remaining
Him
Another
Another Man
Without
Hold
Cannot
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.
Booker T. Washington
Life
Youth
Will
Own
He
Advanced
Feel
Merits
Him
Greater
Because
His
Than
Efforts
Any
Done
Regardless
Race
Injury
Belongs
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
Dignity
Writing
Field
Poem
Prosper
Learns
Till
Race
Much
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
Strength
Down
Other
Ways
Pushing
Exerting
Up
Two
Pulling
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington
World
Will
Way
Something
Individual
Make
His
His Way
End
Done
Wants
In The End
Regardless
Race
Who
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington
Education
Politics
Religion
Independence
Our
Must
Economic
Economic Independence
Bottom
Race
Even
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
You
Trust
Responsibility
Few
More
Individual
Know
Him
Than
Few Things
Place
Help
Things
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington
Life
Top
Must
Bottom
Glorify
Labor
Begin
Common
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington
You
Man
Down
Stay
Him
Hold
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Booker T. Washington
Dreams
You
Read
Going
Realize
Hard
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.
Booker T. Washington
Man
Reward
Long
Add
Moral
Proper
Something
He
Well-Being
Without
Material
Intellectual
Left
Place
Which
Who
Lives
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
Life
Simple
Power
Earth
High
Neutralize
Influence
Useful
We must reinforce argument with results.
Booker T. Washington
Argument
Must
Results
Reinforce
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