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. MAYSEvery 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 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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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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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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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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 isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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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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