Aviator Quotes
I'm less shy now than I was as a kid. After Flight 1549, my family and I had to become public figures and more complete versions of ourselves. I had to teach myself to become an effective public speaker.
Chesley Sullenberger
Retired American fighter pilot
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
Eddie Rickenbacker
American fighter pilot
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
Manfred Von Richthofen
Freiherr
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie Rickenbacker
American fighter pilot
Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
Manfred Von Richthofen
Freiherr
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
Manfred Von Richthofen
Freiherr
After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.
Chesley Sullenberger
Retired American fighter pilot
One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
Manfred Von Richthofen
Freiherr
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Elinor Smith
American aviator
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Charles Lindbergh
American aviator
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker
American fighter pilot
I've got tooth marks on my heart.
Mike Melville
Pilot
You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
Chesley Sullenberger
Retired American fighter pilot
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
American fighter pilot
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