It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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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[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 circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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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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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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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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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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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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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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