“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.”
"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
- Chuck Yeager
Balance
"If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you can use the aircraft the next day, it’s an outstanding landing."
- Chuck Yeager
Inspiration
"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up."
- Chuck Yeager
Resilience
"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don’t give up."
- Chuck Yeager
Perseverance
"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."
- Chuck Yeager
Achievement
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage