Washington (Up From Slavery - Chapter 17, 1901) I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.īooker T. Washington (The Story of My Life and Work - Chapter 10, 1900) It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.īooker T. Washington (Speech in Brooklyn, New York, 1896)ĭignify and glorify common labor. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.Ĭharacter, not circumstance, makes the person.īooker T.
Washington (Speech in Atlanta - The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895)
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.īooker T. Washington (Speech on Abraham Lincoln in New York, 1909) You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.īooker T. There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Washington (Up From Slavery - Chapter 2, 1901) I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.īooker T.
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