Success is to be measured not so much by the position that o... - Booker T. Washington

"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."

"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."

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company"

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

"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."