Charles Lindbergh Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• 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

  Life, Time, Past

  "Is Civilization Progress?". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

• I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Believe, Sky, Flying

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

• 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.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Animal, Men

• It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Adventure, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Wall, Men, Wind

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

• Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Thinking, White, Justice

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Success, Brother, Believe

• I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Believe, Men

• A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Quality, Essentials

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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