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

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

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

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.