The Wright Brothers
Built and flew first successful airplane
Quotes by The Wright Brothers
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
The only constant in life is change.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
It is not the man who has the most money that makes the most discoveries, but the man who has the most brains.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at an elevation and speed denied to man.
The way to success is to get a lot of failures behind you.
If we worked on the assumption that what is currently regarded as impossible is not really impossible, we might make some progress.
The airplane has been an enigma for centuries. It has been the dream of poets and the despair of scientists.