“When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.” — Chuck Yeager Quote

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

Never wait for trouble.

The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.