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. MAYSI believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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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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It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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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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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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If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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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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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 more light we need, it isn’t more truth, and it isn’t more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.
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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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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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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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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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