Soar High: A Curated Collection of Short Inspirational Bird Quotes

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

""The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.""

- Rabindranath Tagore

"The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."

- J.M. Barrie

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

""Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.""

- Dale Carnegie

""Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?""

- W.H. Hudson

""Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.""

- Henry Ward Beecher

""No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.""

- Enid Bagnold

""You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes ... Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing — On his darkest day he believes in spring.""

- Madonna

"Just as a bird needs wings to fly, a human spirit needs freedom to soar."

- Vandana Shukla

""Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.""

- E.E. Cummings

"The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind."

- Carly Simon

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her; still, she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."

- Victor Hugo

"Until you spread your wings; you’ll have no idea how far you can fly."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

- Francis Beaumont

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild."

- The Shawshank Redemption

"Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world– fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life."

- Lyanda Lynn Haupt

"On a day like this, I can’t imagine anything better that might happen in a person’s life than for them to start paying attention to birds—to become aware of this magical world that exists all around us, unnoticed by many but totally captivating for those who know its secrets."

- Ken Kaufman

"… I had also started to recognise just how positive I felt when I was immersed in the world of birds. My worries seemed to fade into insignificance and when I was feeling stressed, if I counteracted it with some time outside, watching them, it drifted off like birds do, in a stiff breeze."

- Joe Harkness

"You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush."

- John Burroughs

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

- Maya Angelou

"No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings."

- William Blake

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

- Maya Angelou

"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."

- E. E. Cummings

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

- James Allen

"Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."

- Victor Hugo

"Opportunity is a bird that never perches."

- Claude Maxwell MacDonald

"In order to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

- Toni Morrison

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."

- Chinese Proverb

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

- C.S. Lewis

"The early bird catches the worm."

- William Camden

"Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can't fly."

- Dan Pena

"A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers."

- Suzy Kassem

"Wherever there are birds, there is hope."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren."

- William Henry Hudson

"A forest bird never wants a cage."

- Henrik Ibsen

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

"Some people are very competitive in their birding. Maybe they’ll die happy, having seen a thousand species before they die, but I’ll die happy knowing I’ve spent all that quiet time being present."

- Lynn Thomson

""Love is a bird; she needs to fly.""

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Birds born in cages think that flying is an illness."

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

"Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for."

- Tennessee Williams

"We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry."

- John Webster

"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest."

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

""Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'""

- Henrik Ibsen

"Birds are not free since Men have invented cages."

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"A bird is joy incarnate."

- Myrtle Reed

"A bird in a cage is not half a bird."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Each bird must sing with his own throat."

- Henrik Ibsen

"How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?"

- Henry David Thoreau

""Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.""

- John Burroughs

"The earth has music for those who listen."

- William Shakespeare

""I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.""

- James Allen

"How can a bird that is born for joy sit in a cage and sing?"

- William Blake

""Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.""

- John Milton

"Birds are magical. Their flight alone can arouse a clever thought."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?"

- David Attenborough

"In order to see birds, it is necessary to become a part of the silence."

- Robert Lynd

"Birds are an ecological litmus paper."

- Roger Tory Peterson

""I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.""

- John Berry

"There is an unreasonable joy to be had from the observation of small birds going about their bright, oblivious business."

- Grant Hutchison

"Not humans, but birds often witness the most beautiful mornings in this world!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"The presence of a single bird can change everything for one who appreciates them."

- Julie Zickefoose

"Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind."

- Munia Khan

"Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off – and they are nearly always doing it."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"A single swallow does not make a summer."

- Aristotle

"I’m very happy being me, although sometimes I’d love to be a bird so that I could fly."

- Joy Fielding

"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

- Bret Harte

"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."

- Sun Tzu

"Hear how the birds, on every blooming spray, With joyous music wake the dawning day."

- Alexander Pope

"Birds are the first and the greatest performers."

- Olivier Messiaen

"There are approximately ten thousand species of birds on the planet and no single individual has seen them all."

- Bernd Brunner

""The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.""

- Saint John of the Cross

""The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.""

- Rose Kennedy

""The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life ... The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds—how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives—and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!""

- Langston Hughes

""Each bird must sing with his own throat.""

- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

- D. H. Lawrence

"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."

- Aesop

"It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do."

- Eric Jerome Dickey

"Every bird, every tree, every flower reminds me what a blessing and privilege it is just to be alive."

- Marty Rubin

"The bird, a prophet in the breeze, has flown across the Atlantic seas."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Birds chirping around you is a beautiful realization that life is incredibly good. Let this sound be a gentle break in your routine."

- Hiral Nagda

"Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers."

- Rumi

"My heart is like a singing bird."

- Christina Rossetti

"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

- P. D. James

"Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly."

- Ivan Turgenev

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."

- Matthew 6:26

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."

- Claude Monet

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

- Valentina Tereshkova

"I’m like a bird, I’ll only fly away."

- Nelly Furtado

"I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly."

- Joy Fielding

""Hail to thee, blithe spirit!/Bird thou never wert/That from Heaven, or near it,/Pourest thy full heart/In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.""

- William Blake

""Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.""

- Salvador Dali

""There are joys which long to be ours. God sends 10,000 truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.""

- Izaak Walton

""The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.""

- Aesop

""It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.""

- Douglas Malloch

""In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence.""

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

""Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers -- a living prismatic gem ... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.""

- Henry van Dyke

""Sweet the coming on/Of grateful evening mild; then silent night/With this her solemn bird and this fair moon,/And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.""

- Victor Hugo

""Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.""

- Robert Lynd

""Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.""

- William Wordsworth

"The phoenix must burn to emerge."

- Janet Fitch

"Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly."

""The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.""

"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on her own wings."

"The bird is never afraid to go from branch to branch because her trust is always in her wings."

- Unknown

"Birds are born twice: once from the egg, and again when they learn to fly."

- Unknown

"Birds are the messengers of nature, reminding us to embrace our freedom and soar to new heights."

- Unknown

"The legend of the phoenix inspires us to embrace change and renewal."

"Embrace the flames, for they forge the phoenix within you."

"Feathered charms, nature's living poetry."

- Unknown

"From the ashes of adversity, the phoenix soars to new heights."

"Feathers on wings, soaring free."

- Unknown

"Bird songs, nature's sweet melodies."

- Unknown

"Winged wonders, dancing in skies."

- Unknown

"Feathered friends, colors in flight."

- Unknown

"Beaks and talons, nature's delight."

- Unknown

"Avian grace, gliding through air."

- Unknown

"Birdsong symphony, nature's rare gift."

- Unknown

"Feathered companions, joy in sight."

- Unknown

"Wings spread wide, freedom's flight."

- Unknown

"Avian acrobats, nature's art form."

- Unknown

"Feathers aloft, beauty in motion."

- Unknown

"Birdsong serenades, nature's sweet notes."

- Unknown

"Winged beauties, nature's living gems."

- Unknown

"Feathered friends, nature's true treasures."

- Unknown

"Avian melodies, nature's soulful tunes."

- Unknown

"Wings in sync, nature's dance."

- Unknown

"Feathered ambassadors, nature's messengers true."

- Unknown

"Birdsong echoes, nature's sweet lullaby."

- Unknown

"Winged wonders, nature's aerial ballet."

- Unknown

"Rebirth and transformation are the gifts of the phoenix."

"In the fire of life's trials, the phoenix finds its strength."

"The beauty of the phoenix lies in its ability to rise anew."

""Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.""