Neil Armstrong Quotes

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Sometimes we have to think very clearly about the unthinkable because the unthinkable sometimes happens.

You can’t prepare for the best case; you have to prepare for the worst case.

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

Look several months ahead, see where the obstacles lie, and figure out ways to overcome them.

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

You need a group of people who will continually realize that you will run into problems, and for each you will have hundreds or thousands of ways you can approach it.

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

If Plan A isn't working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

Failure is a resource that can be managed.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

Almost everything I do when I approach an operational problem comes from the time I've been in space. It's a way of organizing your thoughts. We use problem-solving; what we call "what-if-ing." What if this happened? What would we do? We go over plan B, C, D, E, F, and whatever else, depending on the criticality of what we're doing. This kind of thing can be applied almost everywhere, even at home.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.