Famous Quotes

"I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds."

Alan Shepard on Success

More quotes about Success

• "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

  Bill Cosby on Success

• "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

  Swami Vivekananda on Success

• "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

  Bruce Lee on Success

• "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

  David Brinkley on Success

• "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

  Winston Churchill on Success

More quotes by Alan Shepard

• "The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that."

• "We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on."

• "It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract."

• "I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all."

• "You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."