Quotes by Aviators

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked.- In order to forget - replied the drunkard.- To forget what? - inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.- To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head.- Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him.- Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence.And the little prince went away, puzzled.'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
One boy's a boy two boys are half a boy three boys are no boy at all.
Charles A. Lindbergh
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.
Amelia Earhart
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life or contemplative life or saintly life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.
Amelia Earhart
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have found adventure in flying in world travel in business and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
Jacqueline Cochran
Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Antoine de St. Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
Antoine De Saint Exupery
To be a man is precisely to be responsible.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart
To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
Jacqueline Cochran
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.
Howard Hughes
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.
Howard Hughes
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Amelia Earhart
A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Antoine De Saint Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine De Saint Exupery
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Teaching was the best way to learn.
Edna Gardner Whyte
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!
Bessie Coleman
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
Jacqueline Cochran
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine De Saint Exupery