Christa McAuliffe Quotes

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.

Reach Up Your Hand... and take a star.

Don't ever lose sight of your dreams. And, more importantly, reach for the stars.

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

Reach for the stars; you might just catch one.

We gonna touch the sky.

Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day.

Thus shall you go to the stars.

Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.

I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

Dream more than others think practical.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

I dreamed really big when I was little.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.