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

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.

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

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.