 | 1900 - 1070 pages
...highest round of success. In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not...one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reach the conclusion... | |
 | Arthur Henry Chamberlain - 1913 - 194 pages
...atmosphere of honest toil. "I have learned," says Booker T. Washington in his book, Up from Slavery, "that success is to be measured not so much by the...one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." It is not enough that a portion of our people work. Before... | |
 | Booker T. Washington, Albon L. Holsey - 1915 - 516 pages
...Tuskegee, Alabama. I wish to add here that, in later years, I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured, not so much by the positlon that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.... | |
 | James Mickel Williams - 1922 - 484 pages
...connection an observation of the late Booker T. Washington made in mature life is significant. He said : "I have learned that success is to be measured not...one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." 17 The common tendency is to judge superiority superficially,... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - 1924 - 504 pages
...say cannot be done he does. Booker T. Washington whose leadership illustrates the point once said : "I have learned that success is to be measured not...one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."8 The leader is emanatory. He throws out one idea or suggestion... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1924 - 456 pages
...Between these two paragraphs lie many others which reveal the right racial sense for every man : " I have learned that success is to be measured not...one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reach the conclusion... | |
 | Booker T Washington, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond Smock - 1972 - 566 pages
...highest round of success. In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not...one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reach the conclusion... | |
 | Lainie Blum Cogan, Judy Weiss - 2002 - 662 pages
...Booker T. Washington, a former slave who became an outstanding Black educator, once said: "Success is measured not so much by the position that one has...which [one] has overcome while trying to succeed." 4 Can you think of a famous athlete or celebrity (or, better yet, Jewish hero) who has overcome great... | |
 | Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman - 1991 - 488 pages
...— MRS. S. JOE BROWN. "A landless race is like a ship without a rudder." — BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in Life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. "[No author... | |
 | Tim Lautzenheiser - 1992 - 252 pages
...excellence, we are doomed to mediocrity. Why settle for less? Are we worth our weight in goals? 28 "Success is to be measured not so much by the position...one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. " — Booker T. Washington Teaching Life via Music Another... | |
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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. 
