Booker T. Washington Quotes (0+)

Enjoy the best Booker T. Washington Quotes. Quotations by Booker T. Washington (American educator, author, and orator)
Apr 05, 1856 - Nov 14, 1915

Cast down your bucket where you are.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others.

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.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Success is not to be measured by the position one has reached in life, but rather by the obstacles overcome.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him.

I would permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

About the Author

Booker T. Washington was a dominant leader in the African American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the founding principal of the Tuskegee Institute and an advocate for industrial education and economic self-reliance as the path to racial equality.