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Top 20 Eddie Rickenbacker Quotes (2025 Update)

Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.”

1. “Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “I can give you a six-word formula for success: “Think things through – then follow through.””

2. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: “Think things through – then follow through.””

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”

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

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Courage is about doing what you’re afraid to do.”

4. “Courage is about doing what you’re afraid to do.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.”

5. “Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don’t have hallucinations.”

6. “Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don’t have hallucinations.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.”

7. “Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.”

8. “The better I shoot, the less I have to maneuver.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.”

9. “The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

10. “The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.”

11. “Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.”

12. “I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “I’ve cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I’ll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.”

13. “I’ve cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I’ll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!”

14. “In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.”

15. “When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.”

16. “The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.”

17. “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 Quote: “If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.”

18. “If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. The guarantee of continuity is quality.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I’ll be damned if I’ll pay them to just sit there.”

19. “I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I’ll be damned if I’ll pay them to just sit there.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.”

20. “I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one’s squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.”

21. “There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one’s squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.”

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.”

22. “I can see that aerial warfare is actually scientific murder.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don’t drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.”

23. “Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don’t drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.”

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Eddie Rickenbacker Quote: “Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.”

24. “Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.”

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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