Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Hardly
[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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May Today
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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Something
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Drawn Set
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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Boys Halfway 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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Tasks Wells
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 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 Ideals
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 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
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Apply
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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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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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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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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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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Strive
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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Mean Motivation
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Lows
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Reaching Goals

Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

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