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Booker T. Washington Quotes about Life

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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.

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
Inspirational, Life, Success
Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington
Life, Leadership, Power
Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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.

Booker T. Washington
Life, Success, Hope

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
Life, Karma, Humility
Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.297, The Floating Press

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.

Booker T. Washington
Life, Opportunity, Dying
Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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