Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Charles Lindbergh (American Aviator, Conservationist)

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902–74) was an American aviator, inventor, and conservationist. In May 1927, he became the first person to fly solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Lindbergh grew up on a farm near Little Falls, Minnesota. He attended the University of Wisconsin but left school to study flying. He served as a flying cadet, was commissioned in the Air Force Reserve, and then worked as an airmail pilot on the St Louis-Chicago run.

After learning about a $25,000-prize being offered to the first person who could fly from New York to Paris nonstop, he made the first solo transatlantic flight in a single-engine Ryan monoplane named “Spirit of St. Louis.” His trip amazed the world and made him an overnight hero. He made numerous goodwill flights to promote interest in aviation.

Known subsequently as “Lucky Lindy,” Lindbergh moved to Europe with his wife, the reputed author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to escape the publicity surrounding the kidnapping and murder of their two-year-old son in 1932.

Criticized for his noninterventionist and pro-German isolationist stance before World War II, Lindbergh later flew combat missions and served as a civilian technician for aircraft companies in several theaters of war in the Pacific. After the war, he again became a technical adviser for the U.S. Air Force and ultimately was recommissioned a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. His later years were devoted to conservation issues.

Lindbergh’s reputation never recovered from allegations that he was pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic. He recounted his historic 1927 flight in The Spirit of St. Louis (1953.)

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Dreams

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Bravery, Faith, Courage

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Earth

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Awareness

It’s too dangerous a journey to risk the cat’s life.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Cats

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Wilderness

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Weapon

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Self-improvement, Progress

What kind of man would live where there is no daring?. I don’t believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Risk

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you’ve wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Enthusiasm

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Miracles, Wilderness

The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Flying

Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most!
—Charles Lindbergh

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Logic, Romance

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
—Charles Lindbergh

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Birds

Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.
—Charles Lindbergh
Topics: Critics, Courage

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