 | 1900 - 1070 pages
...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 so much by the position...obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reach the conclusion that often the negro boy's birth and... | |
 | 1913 - 416 pages
...and envy and temper. All real heroes have overcome, and gained self-control. " I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position...while trying to succeed." — Booker T. Washington. Rev. Floyd Tomkins tells of a book in his library which he treasures very much. It was given to him... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 1901 - 350 pages
...as I once did. (l have learned that sue- x cess is to be measured not so much by the position s • that 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 that often the Negro boy's birth and... | |
 | Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific Islands - 1903 - 92 pages
...without a rival." "Success," says Booker Washington, "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." To few of us is given the privilege of doing great things, but to all of us is given the privilege... | |
 | Arthur Henry Chamberlain - 1913 - 192 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 position...obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." It is not enough that a portion of our people work. Before the proper bond of sympathy can exist between... | |
 | Booker T. Washington, Albon L. Holsey - 1915 - 516 pages
...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. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reach the conclusion that often the Negro boy's birth and... | |
 | James Mickel Williams - 1922 - 484 pages
...of the late Booker T. Washington made in mature life is significant. He said : "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position...obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." 17 The common tendency is to judge superiority superficially, according to the outward achievements.... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - 1924 - 504 pages
...he does. Booker T. Washington whose leadership illustrates the point once said: "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position...obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." 8 The leader is cmanatory. He throws out one idea or suggestion after another. His followers turn to... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - 1924 - 456 pages
...paragraphs lie many others which reveal the right racial sense for every man : " I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position...obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reach the conclusion that often the Negro boy's birth and... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - 1924 - 504 pages
...does. Booker T. Washington whose leadership illustrates the point once said : "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position...the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."8 The leader is emanatory. He throws out one idea or suggestion after another. His followers... | |
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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. 
