Aviator Quotes

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risk involved. It it is, stop worrying.

Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise.

If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

Some of us have great runways already built for us.

If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself

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

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

Making steel may be compared to making a chappati.

To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer;

in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man.

It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing.

If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks.

It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps.

I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars.

We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible.

And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.

It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .

Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself.

The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.