Top 15 Most Famous Buzz Aldrin Quotes
Some people don’t like to admit that they have failed or that they have not yet achieved their goals or lived up to their own expectations. But failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing.
— Buzz Aldrin
To me, that is one of the most important principles of life: Never leave your friends behind.
— Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
— Buzz Aldrin
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
— Buzz Aldrin
Your mind is like a parachute: If it isn’t open, it doesn’t work.
— Buzz Aldrin
From the distance of the Moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky. Yet it was still at a great distance, considering the challenges of the voyage home.
— Buzz Aldrin
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
— Buzz Aldrin
Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.
— Buzz Aldrin
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.
— Buzz Aldrin
Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what’s beyond.
— Buzz Aldrin
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto…
— Buzz Aldrin
It might have been a small step for Neil, but it was a big step for me.
— Buzz Aldrin
Mars is there, waiting to be reached.
— Buzz Aldrin
Mars has been…bounced upon, rolled over, shovelled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.
— Buzz Aldrin
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats.
— Buzz Aldrin
30 Inspirational Buzz Aldrin Quotes on Life, Exploration, and the Moon
KEEP IN MIND THAT progress is not always linear. It takes constant course correcting and often a lot of zigzagging. Unfortunate things happen, accidents occur, and setbacks are usually painful, but that does not mean we quit.
— Buzz Aldrin
The universe is the way it is. It’s not going to be changed by supplications.
— Buzz Aldrin
Negativity doesn’t get anybody anywhere. It takes reacting to all of life in a positive way to make the most out of what you’ve experienced and to make a better life and a better world.
— Buzz Aldrin
Resilience is what humans have and resilience is what humans need to take advantage of—their ability to explore and to understand and then to react positively and with motivation, not as a defeatist, to the constant flow of challenges.
— Buzz Aldrin
Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.
— Buzz Aldrin
Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire.
— Buzz Aldrin
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it’s actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.
— Buzz Aldrin
When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.
— Buzz Aldrin
They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
— Buzz Aldrin
My Mother’s maiden name was Marion MOON! I guess it was destiny.
— Buzz Aldrin
Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn’t looking for that.
— Buzz Aldrin
It certainly didn’t make me feel lonely, except to realize that we were as far away as people had ever been. Once we were on the surface of the Moon we could look back and see the Earth, a little blue dot in the sky. We are a very small part of the solar system and the whole universe. The sky was black as could be, and the horizon was so well defined as it curved many miles away from us into space.
— Buzz Aldrin
There’s a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It’s challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment.
— Buzz Aldrin
I’m in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
— Buzz Aldrin
We had this whole big beautiful place for discovery, and all we could think to do with it was wipe out everything that made it worth discovering.
— Buzz Aldrin
I know the sky is not the limit, because there are footprints on the Moon—and I made some of them! So don’t allow anyone to denigrate or inhibit your lofty aspirations. Your dream can take you higher and much farther than anyone ever thought possible! I know mine did.
— Buzz Aldrin
A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other’s individual aims and aspirations.
— Buzz Aldrin
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
— Buzz Aldrin
I still say, ‘Shoot for the moon; you might get there.’
— Buzz Aldrin
Regardless of how you believe the universe was created, it is there waiting for humans to explore.
— Buzz Aldrin
We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
— Buzz Aldrin
America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.
— Buzz Aldrin
Fear paralyzes in many ways, but especially if it keeps you from responding wisely and intelligently to challenges.
— Buzz Aldrin
The only way to overcome your fears is to face them head-on.
— Buzz Aldrin
Returning to Earth, that was the challenging part.
— Buzz Aldrin
There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
— Buzz Aldrin
My first words of my impression of being on the surface of the Moon that just came to my mind was ‘magnificent desolation.’
— Buzz Aldrin
Choose your heroes wisely, and be careful who you idolize. Why? Simple: you will become like the people with whom you most often associate.
— Buzz Aldrin
Take a good, long, honest, positive look at what good can come out of every situation you’re in.
— Buzz Aldrin
This is your history you’re living right now. So do what you can to make the most of what comes along. And please, don’t try to do everything on your own. There are a lot of people out there in the universe who wish you well and want to be your friend. Let them help you. You don’t have to carry it all on your own.
— Buzz Aldrin
19 Best Buzz Aldrin Quotes
Your dream can take you might higher and much farther than anyone ever thought possible! I know mine did.
— Buzz Aldrin
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire.
— Buzz Aldrin
Humanity is destined to explore, settle, and expand outward into the universe.
— Buzz Aldrin
The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars…and then on the surface.
— Buzz Aldrin
This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
— Buzz Aldrin
We’ll get to the details of what’s around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape – angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock. The colors – well, there doesn’t appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders [are] going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.
— Buzz Aldrin
To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we’d probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
— Buzz Aldrin
I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
— Buzz Aldrin
I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
— Buzz Aldrin
When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you’re there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn’t be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you’re there.
— Buzz Aldrin
If we go back to the moon, we’re guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don’t have. It sounds great – ‘Let’s go back. This time we’re going to stay.’ I don’t know why you would want to stay on the moon.
— Buzz Aldrin
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.
— Buzz Aldrin
I’m convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we’re eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don’t come back? What if they stay there?
— Buzz Aldrin
The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars… and then on the surface.
— Buzz Aldrin
The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.
— Buzz Aldrin
Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
— Buzz Aldrin
We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There’s a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they’re going to say ‘Who put that there? Who put that there?’ The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there…
— Buzz Aldrin
The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.
— Buzz Aldrin
We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
— Buzz Aldrin