Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed - Booker T. Washington

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragements he would not give up. Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you.

In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.