Benjamin E. Mays Quotes

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• I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
• 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…
• 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…
• He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
• 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…
• It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
• 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…
• It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
• 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…
• Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
• You have the ability, now apply yourself.
• A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
• Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
• The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
• The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
• It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
• The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…

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