"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."
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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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"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
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"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."
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"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."
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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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"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."
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"You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right."
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"Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success."
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"Fame and success are very different things."
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