It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSA child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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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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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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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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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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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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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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 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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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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