Quotes by Benjamin E. Mays

“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.”

“The tragedy of life doesnt lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isnt a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to”

“. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.”

“Not failure, but low aim is sin.”

“I saw a star, I reached for it, and I missed. So I accepted the sky.”

It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

It isnt 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.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

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

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.