Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

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.

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.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.