Wright Brothers Quotes

“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.”
― Charles A. Lindbergh

“The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence ate usually more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.”
― David McCullough, The Wright Brothers

“Only nine years before the Wright brothers’ famous first flight, Hargrave lifted himself 4.9 metres (16 feet) off the ground in a swing attached to a series of connected box kites that he designed. When a drawing of this momentous feat was circulated in newspapers around the globe, the starting gun was fired and the race for powered flight began in earnest!”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field