Booker T. WashingtonI 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.
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Thomas Edison is known as the man who invented the light bulb. He also happened to be a failed inventor with many others who had already come up with the same idea. He was considered a failure in his career, but he said that the biggest failure is to stop trying.
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