Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSI believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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.
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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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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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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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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.
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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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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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