It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONGShoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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People love conspiracy theories.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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