Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington
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  1. Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

  2. 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.

  3. You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

  4. The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

  5. I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole...

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