Booker T. Washington

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#inspirational

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#slavery #slavery

Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na površinu. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#life

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#end #his #his way #in the end #individual

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

— Booker T. Washington

#bottom #common #glorify #labor #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. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#life #measured #much #obstacles #overcome

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

— Booker T. Washington

#going #hard #read #realize #you

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

#attention #day #every #every day #founded

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#continues #intellectual #left #lives #long

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

— Booker T. Washington

#brothers #color #men #our #them