Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.The Socratic Method, 2023
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Booker T. Washington was an influential African American educator, author, and advisor to multiple presidents. He is best known for being the principal leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and for his advocacy of vocational training as a means for African Americans to achieve economic independence and social equality.
1856–1915·lived 59 years
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.The Socratic Method, 2023
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. Booker T.Up from Slavery, p. 100, 1901
Character is power. Booker T.On Character, Hampton University, 1875
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T.
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.Up from Slavery, p. 100, 1901
That’s all 9 quotes by Booker T. Washington.