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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

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
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
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
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
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Battle Liberty Today
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
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
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
It isn’t more light we need, it isn’t more truth, and it isn’t more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.
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God Light Spiritual
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Dream Reaching Goals Stars
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
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
Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.
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Born Men Strive
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
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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Men Something Unique

The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.

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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.

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