“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
—Mark Twain (1835-1910) [Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist...
“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.”
—Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American Political Leader, Author
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“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
—Richard David Bach (born 1936) Writer...
