Inspirational Flying Quotes On Success In Life
These flying quotes will inspire you. Flying moving or able to move through the air with wings.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging flying quotes, flying sayings, and flying proverbs.
Famous Flying Quotes
- “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.” ~ John Muir
- “Pilots are drawn to flying because it’s a perfect combination of science, romance, and adventure.” ~ Charles Lindbergh , Pilot flying quotes
- “My soul is in the sky.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” ~ Douglas Adams
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“It’s only when you’re flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is” ~ Philippe Perrin
- “When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don’t look down. Just fly higher so the stones won’t reach you” ~ Chetan Bhagat
- “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Flying is done largely with the imagination.” ~ Wolfgang Langewiesche
- “Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” ~ Amelia Earhart
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“What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.” ~ Oliver Smithies
- “Flying dreams mean that you’re doing the right thing with your life.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be?–it is the same the angels breathe.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
- “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” ~ Lord Kelvin
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“The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.” ~ Harrison Ford
- “Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!” ~ Tom Robbins
- “I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Man must rise above the Earth – to the top of the atmosphere and beyond – for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” ~ Socrates
- “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.” ~ Neil Armstrong
- “Not every flying hero has a cape.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” ~ William Blake
- “You’ve got to keep things flying.” ~ Keith Emerson
- “The good thing about flying solo is it’s never boring.” ~ Steve Fossett
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“Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.” ~ Plautus”We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.” ~ Luciano De Crescenzo
- “Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.” ~ Harold Wilson
- “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.” ~ John James Audubon
- “I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.” ~ Jacqueline Cochran
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“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “I don’t have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.” ~ Billy Bob Thornton
- “I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.” ~ Sadako Sasaki
- “When you think about flying, it’s nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you’re sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn’t make any sense.” ~ David Letterman
- “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
- “People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.” ~ Nigel Kneale
- “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.” ~ Amelia Earhart
- “Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.” ~ Marilyn vos Savant
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“I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!” ~ Hilary Duff
- “I quit flying years ago. I don’t want to die with tourists.” ~ Billy Bob Thornton
- “When you launch in a rocket, you’re not really flying that rocket. You’re just sort of hanging on.” ~ Michael P. Anderson
- “Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.” ~ Graham Hawkes , Love flying quotes
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“It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn’t fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.” ~ Rachel Hunter
- “Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said ‘God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane.’ I said, ‘If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn’t the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.'” ~ Anthony Edwards
- “Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.” ~ James Thurber
- “Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.” ~ Eydie Gorme
- “I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.” ~ Regis Philbin
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“I can’t tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that’s flying a space ship.” ~ Mark Hamill
- “Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.” ~ Charles Lindbergh
- “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” ~ Golda Meir
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.” ~ Aaron Carter
- “When it’s played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.” ~ John Edgar Wideman
- “I’m very phobic about flying, but I’m also drawn to it.” ~ Martin Scorsese
- “Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.” ~ Jacques Lacan
- “Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It’s been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I’m talking about. But I’m still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.” ~ Patrick Stewart
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“Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead – There were no birds to fly.” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.” ~ Amy Johnson
- “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.” ~ Bill Gates
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“So, when I say ‘match the hatch’, if the fish are taking the nymph, and you’re actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you’ll catch fresh air.” ~ Rex Hunt
- “The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.” ~ Walter Alexander Raleigh
- “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” ~ Harun Yahya
Flying is moving or capable of moving in the air.
