Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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

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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

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Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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