The Wright Brothers

Engineering American 1867 – 1948 377 quotes

Built and flew first successful airplane

Quotes by The Wright Brothers

We were lucky enough to be born at a time when the world was ready for us.

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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

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The machine itself is not the important thing. The important thing is what it does.

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If we worked on the assumption that what is currently true will remain true, we would never make any progress.

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The human mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's open.

Interview

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Interview

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

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