Alan Shepard Quotes

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

There's always going to be setbacks.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Obstacles don't have to stop you.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.

No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Setbacks motivate me.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

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

There's always going to be adversity.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

There's always going to be bumps in the road. There's always going to be this and that, adversity. You just overcome it. It's what I've done all my life.