Neil Armstrong Quotes

We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Never be thrown off stride in how you behave or what you believe in because of outside events.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

That's what I'm attracted to: how people face struggle - with humor - and how they handle tough situations in their lives and in conversations.

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.

There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift.

The mark of the man is how he responds to situations. You're not going to avoid tough times. We're all over the barrel some of the time. What are you going to do about it?