Booker T. Washington - Worth Quotes

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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Booker T. Washington

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

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.

Booker T. Washington

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Booker T. Washington

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Booker T. Washington