Charles Lindbergh Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Charles Lindbergh

Life, Dream, Yesterday

"Lindbergh". Book by A. Scott Berg, p. 3, 1998.

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

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

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.

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.

Charles Lindbergh

Life, Self Improvement, Important

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Charles Lindbergh

Life, Lying, Essence

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

Charles Lindbergh

Life, Death, Adventure

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt