"The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in……" — Eddie Rickenbacker
"The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence."
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Eddie Rickenbacker
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36 Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker
Eddie Rickenbacker has 36 quotes on this site.
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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…
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In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
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Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of…
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If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old…
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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…
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And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who…
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get…
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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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The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to…
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It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at…
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The aeroplane will never fly.
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Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
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It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier…
— Isak Dinesen
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The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed…
— Unknown Author
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Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and…
— Charles Rumney Samson
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If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and…
— Prince Philip
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans,…
— Virginia Woolf
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The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying…
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