Alan Shepard Quotes

Everything stinks until it's finished.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

It's been a long way, but we're here.

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

I was always motivated to make my parents proud and wait for that one opportunity. Finally, it happened with 'Yevade Subramanyam,' and since then, I have never looked back.

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.