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

"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."

"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."

"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 had to overcome while trying to succeed."

"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."

"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."