If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Character is power.
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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.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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