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.

• adversity

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and to let him know that you trust him.

• leadership
• responsibility

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

• hate

There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

• welfare
• racism

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward.

• service