Booker T Washington Famous Quotes
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life."
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
"There are two ways of exerting one's strength one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
Character is power.
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 Quotations
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
James Arthur Baldwin
"The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it."
Sir Walter Raleigh
"Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot."
Steve Post
"Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered"
Julius Caesar
"...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it."
Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
"Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
Charles Caleb Colton
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act."
Anatole France