Neil Armstrong Quotes

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Firework Guess Ledger Piece Recognize Work
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Airplane Excitement Missing Moon
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Creation Desire Inspirational Man Mystery Understand Wonder
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Choose Circumstance Command Flight Luck Moon Particular Role
It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Complex Difficult Forgiveness Land Lunar Sensation Strange
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Magnificent Moon Surface
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Earth ManKindness Moon Peace Planet
I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Extreme Success Surprise
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Destiny Inspirational Man Understand Universe
It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Moon Sound Time
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Believe Exercise Heartbeat Human Number Waste Wasted Time
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Actual Century Expectation Substant Success
Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Available Business Imagination One Liner Opportunity Patience
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Demostrate Forever Human Opportunity Planet Unlimited Vision
He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Alone Cast Done Motivational
No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Matter Moon Science
Research is creating new knowledge.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Creation Knowledge One Liner Research Science Travel
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Learning Look Performance Thinking
People love conspiracy theories.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Conspiracy Love One Liner People Theory
Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Bird Close Fly Machine Sail Wonderful
I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Attack Believe Difficult Goals Science Spirit Team Work
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Eagle Land
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Book Creation Fire Imagination Meet Poet
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Investigation Research Society Understand
A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Adventure Greatness Job Moon Photograph Travel

Other Famous Personalities