If they have travelled far, they have made the road on which they travelled. If they have ascended high, they have built their own ladder.
In plain words
People who get far have mostly built the road they travelled on.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- "Self-Made Men" speech, delivered repeatedly 1859-1893
- "Self-Made Men" (speech)
- 1859-1893 · one of Douglass's most-repeated post-Civil-War lecture-circuit speeches
