Inspirational Quotes from Eddie Rickenbacker

These quotes from Eddie Rickenbacker would be great additions to graduation or other classroom speeches. Use these in conjunction with themes and speech writing techniques.

• Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
  
  
• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• ...[T]here is something spiritual – I don't know what else to call it – in the feeling you get up there [in the sky].

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