You measure the size of the ...

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

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
 Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
 Booker T. Washington
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
 Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
 Booker T. Washington
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
 Booker T. Washington