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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.

Benjamin E. Mays

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
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
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
[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 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,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
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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Leadership Mean Motivation
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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Communication Intelligent School
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
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
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
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
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

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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