It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS[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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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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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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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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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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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[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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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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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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