"The tragedy of life is not found in……" — Benjamin E. Mays
"The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy."
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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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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 a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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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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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
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I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
— Jeff Bridges
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I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming…
— David Byrne
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To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at…
— Sri Aurobindo
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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the…
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Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by…
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Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.
— Charlotte Gray
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The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside…
— Hugo Black
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He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at…
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