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.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSIt 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 isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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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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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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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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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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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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 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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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 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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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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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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