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You have the ability, now apply yourself.

Benjamin E. Mays

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
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
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
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
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
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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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
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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Determination Integrity Soul
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
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Dream Reaching Goals Stars
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
[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
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
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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Capture Disaster Ideals
Man is what his dreams are.
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Desire Dream Men
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly
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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Battle Liberty Today

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

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