Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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• Booker T. Washington:

  Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

• Booker T. Washington:

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

• Booker T. Washington:

  No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the pl

• Booker T. Washington:

  I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in l

• Booker T. Washington:

  To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

• Booker T. Washington:

  We must reinforce argument with results.

• Booker T. Washington:

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

• Booker T. Washington:

  If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

• Booker T. Washington:

  Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

• Booker T. Washington:

  We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothe