Michael > Michael's Quotes

“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.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.”
― Booker T. Washington