Booker T. Washington
8 quotations
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Character is power.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.