Booker T. Washington

Let down your bucket where you are.

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.

Character is power.

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.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for - and dying for, if need be - is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful.

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

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

Success is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the obstacles one overcomes in its attainment.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them.