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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

It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Dream Reaching Goals Stars
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
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
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
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
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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Goal Life Reaching Stars
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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Born Men Strive
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
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
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
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
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
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

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