Charles Lindbergh Quotes

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

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

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.

Life without risks is not worth living.

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

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

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

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.

Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet’s life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.

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

Then what am I – the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles’ heel is time. Its children, what of them?