Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes

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• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

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  Leadership, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

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  Airplane, Impossible, Aviation

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• I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

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  Believe, Humble, Positive Thinking

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• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

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  Character, Imagination, Independence

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• The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

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  Funny, Water, Lessons

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• If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

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  Business, Style, Survival

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• The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.

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  Thinking, Keys, Key To Success

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• Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.

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• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Eulogy

  Eddie Rickenbacker (1967). “Rickenbacker”, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall

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• I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.

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  Long, Care, Aviation

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• I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

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  Fighting, Nails, Grim Reaper

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• Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

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  Hero, Sky, Space

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

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  Fighting, Risk, Enemy

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• I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.

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  Interesting, Warfare, Murder

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• I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.

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  Believe, I Believe

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• If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.

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  Quality, Guarantees, Aging

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• Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

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  Military, Real, Men

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• The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.

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• The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

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  Sweet, Dying, World

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.

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  Eye, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.

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  Fate, Moments, Possession

  Jessie Alford Nunn, Robert J. Donovan, Eddie Rickenbacker, Leland Stowe, James Albert Michener (1966). “Four complete true adventures”

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• I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.

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  Guy, Pay, Aviation

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• There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

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  Congratulations, Air, Victory

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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