“In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.”
Source: Character Building
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Famous Booker T. Washington Quotes
Source: Papers: The Autobiographical Writings
“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”
“A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900
Source: Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...
“I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.”
Source: The Story of My Life and Work
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers
“A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
Source: Up from Slavery: Top Biography
Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred”
“There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”
Source: Papers: The Autobiographical Writings
Source: Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15
“Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.”
“If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.”
“An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.”
“An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15
“Do not do that which others can do as well.”
Source: A Will to Be Free
Source: An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work