"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."

--

Source : Neil Armstrong's remarks at the Apollo mission press conference (1969), as quoted in Norman Mailer "Of a Fire on the Moon", 1970, and in "First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender" by James R. Hansen, 2005.

Neil Armstrong

#Moon Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.”
“I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.”
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
“Its gonna sound weird, but Glenn Johnson is one of my favorite fighters, because he was one of those throwback fighters that could lose a fight, and then come back and win.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.”
“Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.”
“Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.”

You may also like:

Alan Shepard
United States Naval Aviator
Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut
Jim Lovell
Astronaut
John Glenn
Former United States Senator
Lance Armstrong
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Louis Armstrong
Trumpeter
Michael Collins
Astronaut
Valentina Tereshkova
Cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
Cosmonaut