The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSIf what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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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 isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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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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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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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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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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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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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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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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