Boyington Quotes

#1. Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.

Pappy Boyington

#2. To the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. Where we are as a species is very far away from where I am as an individual, and I am many miles away from where I want to be.

Steve Merrick

#4. Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence,

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum.

Gregory Boyington

#6. The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.

Pappy Boyington

#7. I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Nelson Mandela

#8. All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

Anthony Eden

#9. When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.

Zig Ziglar

#10. The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

Jonathan Tucker

#11. I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

Keith Urban

#12. When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.

Robert Adams

#13. Life is short, you better make the most of it.

Paul Ryan

#14. It takes a year, nephew ... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Annie Proulx

#15. Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Pappy Boyington

#16. What is inside of you is where your wealth is and where your treasures comes from

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

John Churton Collins