A Quote by Benjamin E. Mays

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

Benjamin E. Mays

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Benjamin E. Mays
American - Educator
August 1, 1895 - 1984

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. Mays

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

Vera Nazarian

I think the TAC was just a disgrace, a disgrace not only to the [health] department but a disgrace to the whole country. But I think, as South Africa, we really demonstrated that we are doing pretty well.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.

Nicholas Sparks

They say reach for the stars and you will get to the moon. I say reach for yourself and you will get to the stars.

Francisco Leon

You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

Henry Ford

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

Stephen Dillane

Reach for the stars.

Christa McAuliffe

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.