Top 80 Charles Lindbergh Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.”

— Charles Lindbergh

2. “Life without risks is not worth living.”

— Charles Lindbergh

3. “Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

— Charles Lindbergh

4. “Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”

— Charles Lindbergh

5. “I don’t believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn’t worth living.”

— Charles Lindbergh

6. “Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.”

— Charles Lindbergh

7. “Pilots are drawn to flying because it’s a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.”

— Charles Lindbergh

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8. “Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”

— Charles Lindbergh

9. “After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.”

— Charles Lindbergh

10. “Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”

— Charles Lindbergh

11. “One boy’s a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.”

— Charles Lindbergh

12. “Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.”

— Charles Lindbergh

13. “We are all consumers and should all be producers.”

— Charles Lindbergh

14. “We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.”

— Charles Lindbergh

15. “Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”

— Charles Lindbergh

16. “Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.”

— Charles Lindbergh

17. “I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.”

— Charles Lindbergh

18. “Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.”

— Charles Lindbergh

19. “Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?”

— Charles Lindbergh

20. “In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.”

— Charles Lindbergh

21. “Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life’s progress would be ended.”

— Charles Lindbergh

22. “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 Lindbergh

23. “Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”

— Charles Lindbergh

24. “And if at times you renounce experience and mind’s heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.”

— Charles Lindbergh

25. “A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.”

— Charles Lindbergh

26. “In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.”

— Charles Lindbergh

27. “I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.”

— Charles Lindbergh

28. “I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.”

— Charles Lindbergh

29. “It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.”

— Charles Lindbergh

30. “Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.”

— Charles Lindbergh

31. “At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.”

— Charles Lindbergh

32. “Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.”

— Charles Lindbergh

33. “Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.”

— Charles Lindbergh

34. “When I watch species other than my own, their instinct’s wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.”

— Charles Lindbergh

35. “How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?”

— Charles Lindbergh

36. “I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don’t take any chances at all.”

— Charles Lindbergh

37. “Accuracy means something to me. It’s vital to my sense of values. I’ve learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate, aircraft crash. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.”

— Charles Lindbergh

38. “From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”

— Charles Lindbergh

39. “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

40. “I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.”

— Charles Lindbergh

41. “I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.”

— Charles Lindbergh

42. “To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.”

— Charles Lindbergh

43. “If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”

— Charles Lindbergh

44. “Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn’t become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.”

— Charles Lindbergh

45. “Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.”

— Charles Lindbergh

46. “If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.”

— Charles Lindbergh

47. “In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”

— Charles Lindbergh

48. “What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy’s it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.”

— Charles Lindbergh

49. “I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many – myself and humanity in flux.”

— Charles Lindbergh

50. “Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.”

— Charles Lindbergh