He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
BENJAMIN E. MAYSThe 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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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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The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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Man is what his dreams are.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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