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.Booker T. Washington
“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.”
“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
Educator · 1856 – 1915
American educator who founded the Tuskegee Institute and advised presidents on race relations.
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