Quotes: Booker T. Washington

"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 Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several U.S. presidents 

via: Day In & Day Out Notes, 2024, p. 52. 

Black History quotes: Booker T. Washington

"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 Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915), American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several U.S. presidents 

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