He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSFailure isn’t in not reaching your goal but 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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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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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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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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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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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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