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.

Benjamin E. Mays

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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
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
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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Race Running
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
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
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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[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
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.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
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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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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Intelligent
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Hardly
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
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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Goal Reaching
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

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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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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
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 circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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