Booker T. Washington Quotes

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

You can easily rebuild wealth, but you cannot create liberty when it has gone.

Free Americans deserve the chance to be fully self-supporting.

Last year in the United States alone over $98 billion was distributed in unearned government transfer payments and other aid to millions of men and women who most often did nothing for what they received. This character-weakening government dole is repeated in almost every nation of the world. We encourage Latter-day Saints everywhere to remain free of government assistance. Work for what you receive.

I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.

Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years. Black thinkers as far back as Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington have done the same.

I love to see women just have on their own, and you watch the guys do it all the time. They go out on the road with each other - probably don't even like each other, but they going to get that money.

There's nothing free. Stay independent and don't fall.

I've supported myself since 'Tigerland.'

I will be Shawn Kemp regardless of whether I have money or not. The only thing money does is show who you are.

In college, the coaching staff does more work with you individually. But at the next level, you have to do it all by yourself.

I never borrowed money from Mom. I lived at home, but my parents never helped me. I worked hard and moved out. I treated my blog like a business; hard work is important.

I paid my own bills even when I was married and my husband could have easily paid them.

I need to work to support myself and my kids. No one pays for my support.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

Growing up, we had to work. If you wanted anything at all that was more than basic food and shelter, you had to make your own money.

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.

Let's teach those people that when they go to work, they get skills, they meet people, they get opportunities, they get to climb the ladder, they get much better off than the person who's just sitting at home receiving those things.