Inspirational fly quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
Famous Fly Quotes
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
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. – Amelia Earhart
It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes
Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. – Gregory ”Pappy” Boyington
Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . . . – Charles A. Lindbergh
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
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport. – Orville Wright
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. – General Adolf Galland
Flying is a lot like playing a musical instrument; you’re doing so many things and thinking of so many other things, all at the same time. It becomes a spiritual experience. Something wonderful happens in the pit of your stomach. – Dusty Mctavish
It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do. – Eric Jerome Dickey
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay. – Dalai Lama
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. – Charles A. Lindbergh
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don’t have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of block against the lights. Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. – William T. Piper
Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery – the epitome of breaking into new worlds. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them. – Mark Nepo
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? – Frida Kahlo
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. – Douglas Adams
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. – Leonardo da Vinci
There is no sport equal to that which aviators enjoy while being carried through the air on great white wings. – Wilbur Wright
More than anything else, the sensation of flying is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost – if you can conceive of such a combination. – Wilbur Wright
I learned the discipline of flying in order to have the freedom of flight….Discipline prevents crashes. – Captain John Cook
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women. – Valentina Tereshkova
Good parents give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away, and exercise what’s been taught them. – Jonas Salk
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying. – Amelia Earhart
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. – Cecil Day Lewis
Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description. – Barry M. Goldwater
Flying is inherently dangerous. We like to gloss that over with clever rhetoric and comforting statistics, but these facts remain: gravity is constant and powerful, and speed kills. In combination, they are particularly destructive. – Dan Manningham
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. – Rumi
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them, you can never fly. – Linus Pauling
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams
There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die. – Christopher Paolini
Flying is awful, there’s nothing to do when you’re up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I’m terrified. – Daniela Pestova
I don’t have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. – Billy Bob Thornton
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. – Lauren Bacall
Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them. – African Proverb
Why fly? Simple. I’m not happy unless there’s some room between me and the ground. – Richard Bach
I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport…. – Amy Johnson
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. – Orson Welles
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky. – Amelia Earhart
I don’t keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong. – Mehmet Murat Ildan
We take eagles and teach them to fly in information. – Wayne Calloway
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
That’s the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again. – Jennifer E. Smith
Flying can be easy at times, but with the wrong machine or the wrong person at the controls, it is the most difficult thing in the world. – Paul Gallagher
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. – Antonio Porchia
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. – Wilbur Wright
To most people the sky is the limit. To those who love flying, the sky is home. – unknown
I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it. – John Glenn
If you are bored flying, your standards are too low. – Lauran Paine Jr
In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks. – Wilbur Wright
If you love it, let it fly. If it loves you, it will come back. – Unknown
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one’s mind and fly from them. – A.J. Cronin
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. – Peter Pan
Tell them that as soon as I can walk, I’m going to fly! – Bessie Coleman
Flying is within our grasp. We have naught to do but take it. – Charles F. Duryea
We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet. – Cecil Day Lewis
[Flying] fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming. – Joyce Carol
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out. – Go Chi Minh
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. – Toni Morrison
All my life, I’ve never been able to get enough airplanes. This will keep me flying every day. – Astronaut Robert ‘Hoot’ Gibson
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. – Richard Bach
Below twenty, boys are too rash for flying. Above twenty-five they are too prudent. – W.J. Abbott
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it. – Ernest K. Gann
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. – Brian Tracy
sometimes you gotta fail before you fly. – Unknown
Gly without wings; Dream with open eyes’ See in darkness. – Dejan Stankovic
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers. – Plautus
There is no flying without wings. – French Proverb
If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means, keep moving. – Martin Luther King Jr.
People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that’s all. – Michael Jordan
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. – Bram Stoker, Dracula
The good thing about flying solo is it’s never boring. – Steve Fossett
It’s only when you’re flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is. – Philippe Perrin
Flying is done largely with the imagination. – Wolfgang Langwiesche
Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly. – Napoleon Bonaparte
It’s okay to get butterflies in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in information. – Georges St- Pierre
When you fly high, people will throw stones at you. Don’t look down. Just fly higher so the stoned won’t reach you. – Chetan Bhagat
See driving is like stabbing someone, it’s very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it’s more distant. – Bushwick Bill
