SUCCESS in Classic Quotes

1  This I was successful in doing.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

2  With the passing of this bill the success of the Atlanta Exposition was assured.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

3  They knew that by one sentence I could have blasted, in a large degree, the success of the Exposition.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

4  Notwithstanding my success at Mrs. Ruffner's I did not give up the idea of going to the Hampton Institute.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

5  Every success of the Federal armies and every defeat of the Confederate forces was watched with the keenest and most intense interest.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

6  During all the financial stress through which the school has passed, his patience and faith in our ultimate success have not left him.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

7  No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

8  I used to picture the way that I would act under such circumstances; how I would begin at the bottom and keep rising until I reached the highest round of success.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

9  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.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

10  The fact that the individual has behind and surrounding him proud family history and connection serves as a stimulus to help him to overcome obstacles when striving for success.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

11  When we reached the grounds, the heat, together with my nervous anxiety, made me feel as if I were about ready to collapse, and to feel that my address was not going to be a success.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

12  Let me take this opportunity of congratulating you most heartily and sincerely upon the great success of the exercises provided for and entertainment furnished us under your auspices during our visit to Tuskegee.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.

13  I recalled that from my youth I had heard it said that too often, when people of my race reached any degree of success, they were inclined to unduly exalt themselves; to try and ape the wealthy, and in so doing to lose their heads.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.

14  One may get the idea, from what I have said, that there was bitter feeling toward the white people on the part of my race, because of the fact that most of the white population was away fighting in a war which would result in keeping the Negro in slavery if the South was successful.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

15  My good friend Mr. Garrison kindly took charge of all the details necessary for the success of the trip, and he, as well as other friends, gave us a great number of letters of introduction to people in France and England, and made other arrangements for our comfort and convenience abroad.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.

16  So far as I can now recall, the first knowledge that I got of the fact that we were slaves, and that freedom of the slaves was being discussed, was early one morning before day, when I was awakened by my mother kneeling over her children and fervently praying that Lincoln and his armies might be successful, and that one day she and her children might be free.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

17  In the midst of all the difficulties which I encountered in getting the little school started, and since then through a period of nineteen years, there are two men among all the many friends of the school in Tuskegee upon whom I have depended constantly for advice and guidance; and the success of the undertaking is largely due to these men, from whom I have never sought anything in vain.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.