Is there anything more thrilling than taking flight? For entrepreneurs, the thrill of taking off and soaring to new heights is what drives us. We’re passionate about our businesses and constantly looking for ways to grow. Soaring to new heights isn’t always easy, but it’s worth it. Here are some inspirational flight quotes to help you reach your goals.

The best flight quotes

1. You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. — Paul Theroux

2. In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women. — Valentina Tereshkova

4. A man falls down a flight of stairs and somebody rushes over to him and asks, ‘Did you miss a step?’ ‘No, ‘ he answers, ‘I hit every one of them! — Milton Berle

5. Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. — Oscar Wilde

6. When you fall so many times, you become the master of flight. — Nikki Rowe

7. And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole. — Shaun Hick

8. I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight’s all right and smooth I’m still thinking, ‘what if the engine blow up?’ ‘What if a fool’s got a bomb on it?’ — Muhammad Ali

9. Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. — Walt Disney

10. There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself. — Richard Branson

11. Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.–The Creation of Éa — Ursula K. Le Guin

12. The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had. — Michael Connelly, Angels Flight

13. –the little comfort of love?–Is that comfort so little?–Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams

14. The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had. — Michael Connelly, Angels Flight

15. A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds. — Sylvia Plath

16. Growing up in the ’60s and early ’70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel. — Stewart O’Nan

17. I was so scared the first time I flew the flight attendant called me Whitey. — Nipsey Russell

18. There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself. — Richard Branson

19. There is time for a fight and a time for a flight — knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death

20. One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. — Robert Lynd

21. I very rarely listen to the in–flight stuff. — Phil Collins

22. Don’t let a strong wind blow you over, take flight upon it. — Rob Liano

23. Love is not a verb. Love is a noun. Love’s activity is people breathing, cells dividing, a dove taking a flight. This grammar of life not all can see. — Mohit Parikh, Manan

24. You can’t drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage… well you can, but then you’re Spandau Ballet. — Robert Smith

25. What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive. — Simon Morden, Theories of Flight

26. I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not. — T.H. White, England Have My Bones

27. I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors. — Todd Barry

28. Men do weird things when they experience fear. It’s like a fight–or–flight thing. — Rashida Jones

29. Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt. — Samuel Johnson

30. Everyone had a story behind them, a past richer than she had imagined. — Tyrean Martinson, Champion in Flight

31. Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight. — Sally Ride

32. Eagle’s flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die — Munia Khan

33. If we’re on long–haul flights I’ve been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine. — Wayne Rooney

34. I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don’t understand her accent–I will go hungry for the entire flight. — Shah Rukh Khan

35. I’m tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else. — Mercedes Lackey, Arrow’s Flight

36. And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight. — William Butler Yeats

37. Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman’s age, but you can’t fool a flight of stairs. — Marlene Dietrich

38. A firm ground helps kickstart a long leap of flight. So keep your foundation strong to rise high. — Uma Shanker

39. One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. — Robert Lynd

40. –the little comfort of love?–Is that comfort so little?–Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. — Tennessee Williams

41. The thing I’ll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I’m sure it was the most fun that I’ll ever have in my life. — Sally Ride

42. After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place… — Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

43. Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet. — J.R. Rim

44. Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight. — Miguel De Cervantes

45. Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. Tongue, lose thy light. Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die. — William Shakespeare

46. As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend. — Walter Benjamin

47. Behind every successful flight, lies the will, full of thrust, against the wind; the will to win. — Vikrmn, 10 Golden Steps of Life

48. Blood is everywhere..Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks — for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh.

49. There is no hospitality like understanding. — Vanna Bonta, Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

50. When you fall so many times, you become the master of flight. — Nikki Rowe

Conclusion

We hope that these quotes about flight have inspired you to take a chance and reach for the sky! Whether you’re a professional pilot or a novice flyer, flight is an incredible experience that can take you to new heights and give you a different perspective on the world. No matter how you look at it, flying is an amazing accomplishment, and the sky is truly the limit!