My favorite inspirational/space quotes:

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
-- Robert H. Goddard

"To go places and do things that have never been done before - that's what living is all about."
-- Michael Collins

"Use the word 'impossible' with the greatest of caution."
-- Wernher von Braun

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. "
-- Thoreau

"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
-- A League of Their Own

"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy."
-- Anonymous

"I'm a scientist; nothing shocks me. "
-- Indiana Jones

"I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go."
-- Captain Cook

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
-- Isaac Newton

"If I have not seen farther, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
-- Anonymous

"All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct."
-- Carl Sagan

"Just keep away from the black hole garbage bin by the door as you leave," said the Caterpillar. "It's very useful for getting rid of theoretical papers and weak students!"
-- Alice and the Space Telescope, Chapter 7

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
-- Terry Pratchett

"Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film."
-- Steven Wright

"Half the people you know are below average."
--Steven Wright

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
-- Eden Phillpotts

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
-- Mario Andretti

"...The unknown is what brings us out here."
-- Picard to Q

"Remember; no matter where you go, there you are."
-- B. Banzai

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-- Douglas Adams

"Some look at the world and ask why? I dream of things and ask why not?"
-- Robert Kennedy

"I canna change the laws of physics, Captain, but I'll find y' a loophole!"
-- Scotty

"For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong."
-- H.L. Mencken

"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I too can see stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel, my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light."
-- Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

"I've tried everything. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 things that won't work."
-- Thomas Edison

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failures, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither suffer nor enjoy much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"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."
-- John F. Kennedy, 1962

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-- Thomas Edison

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke

"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going into space."
-- Unknown

"There is no failure in life other than not trying. If you want something badly enough, make an attempt... A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You didn't "fail." You "tried your best."
-- Unknown

"Humanity must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will we fully understand the world in which we live."
-- Socrates, 500 B.C.

"Do or do not. There is no try."
-- The ever wise Yoda

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
--Leo Burnett

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your tax dollar will go farther."
--Wernher von Braun

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
--Arthur C. Clark

"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars".
-- Sir James Jeans

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
-- Richard Feynman

"Physics is a blind alley again. In any case, it has become too difficult for me, and I would prefer to be a comedian in the cinema, or something like that, and hear no more about physics."
-- Wolfgang Pauli

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
-- George S. Patton

"You don't have to be tall to see the moon."
-- African proverb

"Perseverence is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
-- Newt Gingrich

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
-- Kahlil Bigran

"No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"May you live every day of your life."
-- Jonathan Swift

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
-- Carl Sagan

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-- Josh Billings

"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."
-- James Boren

"We should be too big to take offense adn too noble to give it."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-- Confucius

"Freedon is not the right to do what we want, but to do what we ought."
-- Abraham Lincoln


Travel Quotes

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
--Yogi Berra

Always go to the bathroom when you have the chance
--George V

Nothing endures but change.
--Heraclitus, about 500 B.C.

Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen."
--Louis L'Amour

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
--Pope John Paul II

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
--Marcel Proust"

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
--Confucius

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

I love to travel, But hate to arrive
--Albert Einstein

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
--Augustine (354-430)

Not all those who wander are lost.
--J.R.R. Tolkein

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a
foreign land.
--G.K. Chesterton

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
--Ursula K. LeGuin

Taking a new step...is what people fear most
--Dostoyevski

Everything is going to be different…
Nothing is going to be the same after your passport has been stamped.

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist.
--Douglas Adams