It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSIt 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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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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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 tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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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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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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 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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[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 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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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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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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