Quotes About Achievement

With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million dollars?

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

If you have a dream, you have a responsibility to yourself and to us to make it come true. That's the most important thing in your life. Don't let anything stand in its way.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.

The goals and expectations that people have for me are pretty high, but ... if I were to have to compare their expectations to mine, I would say mine are ten times higher.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

When I graduated from high school, my mom and aunt got uncharacteristically emotional, remarking that it looked like I was going to make it. I have inherited from these women a very pragmatic way of looking at the world, because they did whatever necessary to get the job done.

I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Contact light.

It might have been a small step for Neil, but it was a big step for me.

I know the sky is not the limit, because there are footprints on the Moon -- and I made some of them!

Did you know I took the first space selfie during Gemini 12 mission in 1966? BEST SELFIE EVER

When our crew was announced, I told my wife that I'd just as soon be on a later flight because I didn't want all the press and all the attention for the rest of my life for being on the first landing. Because that's all the press seems to care about. "Who was first? Who was on the first landing?" Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon.

It's not the value of the rocks we brought back, or the great poetic statements that will be uttered. Those things aren't remembered. It's that people witnessed that event. We are not going to justify going to Mars by what we bring back.

Let me say, as I sit here before you today, having walked on the moon, that I am myself still awed by that miracle. That awe, in me and in each of us ... must be the engine of future achievement, not a slow-dimming light from a time once bright.

When I returned from the Moon, I fell into a series of depressions and bouts with alcohol because I had great difficulty finding something meaningful to do. After you have done what no human beings have done in all of history ... it is hard to get excited about a "normal" job or a mundane military career. So for a while, I experienced a roller coaster of emotions, and it wasn't until I returned to what I was passionate about -- space exploration -- that I truly found my equilibrium again.