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.
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.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
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.
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 race.
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
We must reinforce argument with results.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
