Neil Armstrong Quotes

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

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.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.

There are places to go beyond belief.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

The Eagle has landed.