“It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to ha...” — Benjamin E. Mays Quote

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

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

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.

That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.