I did not come to NASA to make history.

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"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."

- Sally Ride

Awareness

"The view of Earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It’s a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is."

- Sally Ride

Awareness

"Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people."

- Sally Ride

Success

"There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields; girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences."

- Sally Ride

Empowerment

"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."

- Sally Ride

Education

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition