If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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.
More Benjamin E. Mays Quotes
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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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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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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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We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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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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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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Man is what his dreams are.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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