Quotes by Wilbur Wright

What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

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 full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, "pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio."