If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

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"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."

- Chuck Yeager

Courage

"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

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"There is beauty in the Beast, just as there is darkness in the most perfect human."

- Beauty and the Beast

Balance

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

Balance

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

Balance

"Make your Tuesday as productive as possible, but don’t forget to enjoy the journey."

Balance

"You can’t always hold on to the things that are important. By letting them go we gain something else."

- Kunio Yaobi

Balance