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

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

It isn't 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.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

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.

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.

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

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

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

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

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

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.

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.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

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.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

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

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

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

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

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

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

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

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.