Inspirational Quotes for Spring Flying Season

To get motivated for the spring flying season, here’s a compilation of some of our favorite inspirational quotes on aviation, aircraft and flying.

We start with one in tribute to the great Stephen Hawking, influential physicist and icon of contemporary science, who passed away at the age 76 on March 14, 2018.

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”
— Stephen Hawking (January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018)

“Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.”
— Neil Armstrong

“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”
— Amelia Earhart

“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

“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
— G. K. Chesterton

“Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.”
— James Dickey

“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

“I could have gone on flying through space forever.”
— Yuri Gagarin

“To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. To fly is everything.”
— Otto Lilienthal

“Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.”
— Wilfred Owen

“The good thing about flying solo is its never boring.”
— Steve Fossett

“There is no more exciting sport than flying, for if you lose, you die.”
— Christopher Paolini

“Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.”
— Sophocles

“The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.”
— Denzel Washington

“The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.”
— Wilbur Wright

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