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It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Benjamin E. Mays

It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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Goal Life Reaching Stars
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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Dream Lying Stars
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
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Believe People White
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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Believe Children Inspirational
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
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Men Race Running
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
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Goals Dreams Lying Mind
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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Capture Disaster Ideals
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.
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People Tasks Wells
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

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