Neil Armstrong Quotes

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

I really don't go much by expectations.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.