"It isn't a calamity to die with dreams……" — Benjamin E. Mays
"It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream."
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Benjamin E. Mays
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27 Quotes by Benjamin E. Mays
Benjamin E. Mays has 27 quotes on this site.
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too…
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In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death…
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He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man…
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We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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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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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to…
— Aeschylus
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong…
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When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the…
— William Whately
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be…
— Sun Tzu
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If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you…
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which…
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