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01Undated

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington / quote

02Undated

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington / quote

03Undated

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Booker T. Washington / quote

04Undated

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

Booker T. Washington / quote

05Undated

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington / quote

06Undated

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Booker T. Washington / quote

07Undated

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 / quote

08Undated

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington / quote