Top 20 Moon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.”

— Les Brown

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2. “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”

— Khalil Gibran

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3. “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

— Neil Armstrong

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4. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

— W. Clement Stone

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5. “At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.”

— Rumi

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6. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

— Paul Brandt

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7. “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

— William Shakespeare

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8. “And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.”

— Mahmoud Darwish

9. “Give love and forget that you gave it.”

— Sun Myung Moon

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10. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

— E.E. Cummings

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11. “Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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12. “There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.”

— Roger Waters

13. “For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.”

— Chanakya

14. “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

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15. “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

— Neil Armstrong

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16. “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”

— George Carlin

17. “Don’t worry if you’re making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.”

— Scott Stabile

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18. “The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it.”

— Albert Einstein

19. “The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

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20. “When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”

— Alan Shepard

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21. “If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.”

— Krafft Arnold Ehricke

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