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.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSWhatever 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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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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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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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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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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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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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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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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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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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Man is what his dreams are.
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