Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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.
BW Booker T. WashingtonEducator & author · 1856–1915Wat dit citaat betekent
Success is reframed as distance traveled, not height reached. The obstacles you overcome, Washington says, are the truer measure of an achievement.
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American educator, author, and orator, born into slavery, who became a leading voice for education and self-reliance.
This line is among the quotes by Booker T. Washington that readers return to on succes — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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