A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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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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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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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