Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

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.

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.

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.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.