Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
I am not a labor hater.
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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Eddie Rickenbacker
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Aviator
BirthDate
08 October, 1890
DeathDate
23 July, 1973
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