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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

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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Believe May Today Tomorrow
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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Determination Integrity Soul
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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Believe Children Inspirational
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
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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Goals Dreams Lying Mind
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
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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People Tasks Wells
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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Men Something Unique
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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Dream Lying Stars
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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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
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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Believe People White
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men
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 Disaster 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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Men Race Running
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set

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