Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

Chuck Yeager's Popular Quotes

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

- Chuck Yeager

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

- Chuck Yeager

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

- Chuck Yeager

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people on…

- Chuck Yeager

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

- Chuck Yeager

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

- Chuck Yeager

At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

- Chuck Yeager

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

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doi…

- Chuck Yeager