“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”

“Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed”

“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 overcome while trying to succeed.”

“Success is not to be measured so much by the status one has attained in life but rather by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.”

“Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away. The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished.”

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”