#si

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 had to overcome while trying to succeed. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#i #i have learned #learned #life #measured

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#refuge #suicide

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#earth #high #influence #life #neutralize

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#faith #had #i #never #really

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#frightened #given #i #laziness #more

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#answer #background #basis #black #cultural

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#am #best #cup #effort #goes

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#away #child #come #could #door

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#around #did #good #how #i

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#both #both sides #everybody #feel #gift