- 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 overcome while trying to succeed.
- I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
- I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
- There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
10 inspirational booker t washington quotes on success
