81 Motivational Born to Fly Quotes to Make You Soar

Following is our list of born to fly quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about born to live.

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Famous Born To Fly Quotes

You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again. — Alfred Wainwright

Take these broken wings and learn to fly. — Paul McCartney

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? - Rumi

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Rumi

I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings — Drake

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. — John Lennon

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime. — Adolf Galland

We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them. — Kevin Myers

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do. — Mos Def

Come up and be a kite,
 On a diamond flight! - Kate Bush

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush

You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. — Rumi

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky — Rumi

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see . — Charles Lindbergh

Celebrate your own 
 special spirit 
 fly on the wings 
 of your secret dreams - Laurel Burch

Celebrate your own special spirit fly on the wings of your secret dreams — Laurel Burch

Short Born To Fly Quotes

  • Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • If I cannot fly, let me sing. — Stephen Sondheim
  • She soars on her own wings. — Socrates
  • You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness. — Eric Butterworth
  • O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? — Dante Alighieri
  • You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound. — William Shakespeare
  • Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life. — Frank Fools Crow
  • There is an eagle in me that wants to soar. — Carl Sandburg
  • This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love. — Hafez
  • You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. — Toni Morrison

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Born to fly quote If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.

Born To Live Quotes

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. — Mary, Queen of Scots

We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. - Saint Joseph

We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more. — Saint Joseph

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility. — Olympe de Gouges

Born to fly quote You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever. — Ernest Holmes

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. — Carlos Castaneda

Born to fly quote Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.
Don't be afraid of being outnumbered. Eagles fly alone. Pigeons flock together.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live. — Gina Lollobrigida

I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts? — Ronnie Radke

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world — Buddha

If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest. — Slash

Born To Run Quotes

People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them. — Christina Grimmie

All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. — Chief Joseph

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction — William James

Born to fly quote The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.

I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are. — Christopher McDougall

Born to fly quote Why fit in when you we born to stand out?
Why fit in when you we born to stand out?

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time. — Sammy Davis, Jr.

We were born to run; we were born because we run. - Christopher McDougall

We were born to run; we were born because we run. — Christopher McDougall

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running. — Florence Griffith Joyner

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen

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More Born To Fly Quotes

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind. — Anton Chekhov

Most Saiyans are born with a talent for battle, but they still need to be taught the trick behind flying and stuff like that. — Akira Toriyama

Born to fly quote What good are wings withou the courage to fly.
What good are wings withou the courage to fly.

If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly. — Amanda Bearse

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. — Coco Chanel

Born to fly quote Don't make me walk when I want to fly.
Don't make me walk when I want to fly.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. — Voltaire

I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space. — Carrie Fisher

Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die. — Michael Jackson

O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne? — Dante Alighieri

I always was fascinated by space and always wanted to learn more about it and wanted to experience it first hand by flying into space. I don't know how it began or where it began. Maybe I was born with it. Maybe it's in my genes. — Anousheh Ansari

I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky... Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits. — Sarah Ruhl

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight. — John Steinbeck

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts. — John Zakour

But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly — Sara Evans

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. — Robert Southey

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — James Joyce

To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh? — Salman Rushdie

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius

Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity. — Rumi

You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings. — Robert Moss

Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born. — Homer

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. I've spoken with a number of young people who weren't even born in 1969, when the first moon landing was made. They've witnessed the first person to fly at faster than speed of the sound without propulsion. These kids are happy to have had such a momentous event in their lifetime. — Felix Baumgartner

Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for? — Dacia Maraini

How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly? — Salman Rushdie

Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe that human beings fear silence - that is, the absence of constantly imposed direction. It is further believed that if we can be relieved of our fears, we will gain enough self-confidence to buy, eat, vote, fly, or simply go on living. — John Ralston Saul

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. — Jerome K. Jerome

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards". — Andrei Tarkovsky

When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day Without a throat or tongue. And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, Back in my room alone, My heart has many a sweet bird's song - And one that's all my own. — W. H. Davies

Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything. — Jenny Downham

Connor Broekhart was born to fly, or more accurately he was born flying. — Eoin Colfer

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. — Stephen Crane

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas. — Hermann Hesse

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. — E. B. White

Your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born. — Marquis De Sade

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