Booker T. Washington

"Character is power. "

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. "

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. "

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. "

"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. "

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

"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. "