Top 60 Missions Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Missions Quotes from famous people such as Jamie Chung, Peter Bergen, Rakesh Sharma, Adoniram Judson, Douglas Coupland, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

All the female characters in 'The Gifted' are stronger

All the female characters in ‘The Gifted’ are stronger than the men. We’re not waiting around to be saved but spearheading the missions.
Jamie Chung
If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.
Peter Bergen
Space exploration has taken a tremendous technological leap. India as a developing nation has been recognized globally for how it has economized its missions, which have been comparatively low-cost compared with other countries.
Rakesh Sharma
I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.
Adoniram Judson
I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere’s a research library and I can’t get an elitist kick from it any more.
Douglas Coupland
When I was 12 years old, I got involved with an organization called Artists for a New South Africa. One of its missions is to help with HIV/AIDS awareness.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions – or got knocked out – whichever came first.
Gus Grissom
I worked on all of the Apollo manned missions and a couple of Apollo unmanned missions.
Margaret H. Hamilton
The Navy Seals don’t travel with 200 people, they wouldn’t be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.
Harris Faulkner
It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
Tammy Duckworth
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.
Erik Prince
I think a lot of people interested in space exploration tend to hear stories about the great missions, how they work technically, what we learned. But they don’t really hear the story of what it takes to get a mission from scratch to the launch pad and into space.
David Grinspoon
United States forces have always relied on local allies to accomplish military and diplomatic missions and will need this support in the future. But why would anyone agree to help the United States if we have a record of breaking our promises and abandoning those who assist us?
Jeanne Shaheen
We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science – and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.
Rick Tumlinson
I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It’s on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It’s been part of my life for 20 years.
Heidi Hammel
I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.
David Roberts
The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?
Leroy Chiao
I’m a major NASA nerd, so I’ve spent a lot of time learning about the space race and the Apollo missions.
Mike Flanagan
I think windows are really important for the psychological health of crew members on long duration missions. It is nice to look outside, even if it is dark.
Sunita Williams
Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around the world.
Romeo Dallaire
One of my missions was to teach.
Paul Prudhomme
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan
I feel that we all have missions and purposes in life. Part of mine is allowing women to feel beautiful in whatever they put on – or don’t put on.
Danielle Brooks
Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions.
Ezra Taft Benson
I’m a strong advocate of new missions to Venus.
David Grinspoon
A woman’s beauty is one of her great missions.
Richard Le Gallienne
I don’t think people have an appreciation for the work that it takes to pull these missions off, like humans living on the space station continuously for 15 years. It is a huge army of hard-working people to make it happen.
Scott Kelly
During one of the Apollo missions, I saw Walter Cronkite showing off the flight plan. It just mesmerized me. All this detail! That’s what I wanted.
Alan Stern
I don’t like small things, I like big missions.
Emma Hayes
The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
Richard Engel
We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.
Ron Kind
Technology is a wonderful thing. It should reduce error

Technology is a wonderful thing. It should reduce errors, save taxpayers money, and be a tool to help agencies accomplish their missions. It should not be a burden.
Will Hurd
The bottom line is 2018 should finally be the year where we see the early stages of broad-based commercial space tourism appear. Demand will certainly be driven by the early successes or failures of those missions, the marketing of those missions, as well as the propensity for tourists to become repeat flyers.
Dylan Taylor
A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies – all this kind of stuff. It’s very democratic.
Barry Barish
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
In an increasingly volatile and uncertain world, the men and women of the Iowa National Guard play a vital role in overseas contingency operations, domestic response missions and aggressive training exercises to remain a ready and reliable force.
Kim Reynolds
I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it’s something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job.
Mark Kelly
Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
David Wilkerson
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
Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
The Court’s majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio’s payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools’ religious missions.
David Souter
The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.
Nick Turse
When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a long list of how often I’ve been surprised by the richness of nature.
Alan Stern
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler’s oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
George McGovern
The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Whether it’s space tourism or really interesting missions to the moon or Mars, you really need a healthy capital ecosystem to make that happen. Nation states and governments have the control, but unless the financing is sustainable, it’s hard to really keep them on that.
Dylan Taylor
Earning high returns isn’t just a matter of bragging rights – endowment income supports the missions of nonprofit institutions, whether education, as with college and universities, or broader social programs, as at many private foundations.
James B. Stewart
One of the missions of ‘The Nightly Show’ was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn’t want to talk about it.
Larry Wilmore
The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.
Andy Weir
As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that’s no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.
Alan Stern
As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.
Frank Rich
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana