No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
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.
Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.