John F. Kennedy Quotes

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.

A space nerd as a kid, I learned early that putting a man on the moon took American unity, grit, determination, teamwork, hardship, innovation, sacrifice and patriotism.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

There is no success without hardship.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born and me being born and no one had gone back since, all these Super-8 films we grew up watching of rocket launches, you get to a certain age and you realize all the speeches about going back, they're speeches, there's no money there, we're not going back.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."