159 Inspirational Bird Quotes to Help Your Spirit Soar

These bird quotes will uplift your spirit and fill your mind with thoughts of flying and freedom.

Birds are some of the most beautiful and inspiring animals that inhabit our planet.

Whether you enjoy owning pet birds or observing these feathered creatures in the wild, you’ll love this collection of positive quotes.

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In a survey conducted by the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), 81% of respondents reported feeling a sense of wonder and awe when watching birds, many cited the freedom and grace of flight as a source of inspiration.

This suggests that bird quotes can be a powerful source of reminding us of the beauty and potential for growth and transformation in our lives.

What are the benefits of reading these bird quotes?

These words of wisdom will inspire you to fly away whether you like parrots, owls, ducks, geese, or any other fowl.

Remember these inspiring quotes the next time you see a bird flying freely in the sky.  

If you want to reach your full potential in life, it’s important to think like a bird.

These bird quotes can help teach you several life lessons like:

• have faith in yourself and your ‘wings’
• soar as high as you want (live without limits)
• don’t compare your journey to anyone else’s
• surround yourself with people who are going in the same direction

Don’t hold yourself back with mental limitations.

Whether you like bird watching or feeding birds in the park, you’ll enjoy these beautiful and motivational quotes.

This collection of insightful sayings highlights the majesty and beauty of birds.

These winged creatures represent freedom, love, and liveliness.

Read these bird quotes for encouragement and inspiration.

Bird quotes to make your soul feel light and limitless

1. “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake

2. “The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.” – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

3. “Every bird, every tree, every flower reminds me what a blessing and privilege it is just to be alive.” – Marty Rubin

4. “I work as often as I want and yet I’m free as a bird.” – Ethel Merman

5. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes

6. “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” – J.M. Barrie

7. “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

8. “In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” – Robert Lynd

9. “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” – E. E. Cummings

10. “I’m like a bird, I only fly away. I don’t know where my soul is. I don’t know where my home is.” – Nelly Furtado

Bird quotes to uplift your spirit

11. “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

12. “When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.” – Amit Ray

13. “Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.”― John Lennon

14. “You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush.”― John Burroughs

15. “I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

16. “Birds chirping around you is a beautiful realization that life in incredibly good. Let this sound be a gentle break in your routine.”― Hiral Nagda

17. “The songs of the morning birds reverberate the glory of the eternal life.”― Amit Ray

18. “Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” – Dejan Stojanovic

19. “If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.” – Nikita Khrushchev

20. “Birds of a feather flock together …only in good weather!”― Ankala Subbarao

Bird quotes about their majesty and beauty

21. “Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.” – Suzy Kassem

22. “The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.” – Will Cuppy

23. “I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” – James M. Barrie

24. “Small birds throw seeds out of the feeder; large birds pick them up off the ground, but the squirrels try to muscle in.” – Lilian Jackson Braun

25. “He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.” – Wendell Berry

26. “Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs.” – Israelmore Ayivor

27. “From birds she learned how to sing; from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.” – Salman Rushdie

28. “You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” – Hal Borland

29. “Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.” – Gisele Bundchen

30. “Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.” – Ivan Pavlov

Bird quotes to encourage and inspire you

31. “What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

32. “I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.” – Banani Ray

33. “It’s like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.” – Peggy Whitson

34. “Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds.” – M.F. Moonzajer

35. “I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.” – Pete Hamill

36. “A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.” – Bret Harte

37. “Birds are sky bound; holding them down in a cage is wicked love.”― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

38. “The biggest favor you can do to yourself is fly freely like birds.” – Kuldeep Gera

39. “No human ever lived in a birdless world.”― Richard Smyth

40. “The more I work with birds, the more I believe in the undreamt, the things we are not given to know.” – Julie Zickefoose

More bird quotes and sayings

41. “Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.” – Walter Benjamin

42. “My writing often contains souvenirs of the day — a song I heard, a bird I saw — which I then put into the novel.” – Amy Tan

43. “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.” – Hermann Hesse

44. “Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing — it can’t fly.” – Dan Pena

45. “The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.” – Eric Berne

46. “The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.” – Leonardo da Vinci

47. “I like the idea of taking off like a bird.” – Florence Welch

48. “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.” – Maya Angelou

49. “The freedom of birds is an insult to me.” – Cormac McCarthy

50. “Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” – Terry Tempest Williams

Other bird quotes and sayings

51. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali

52. “A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.” – Suzy Kassem

53. “For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.” – Benjamin Franklin

54. “The early bird catches the worm.” – William Camden

55. “My heart is like a singing bird.” – Christina Rossetti

56. “I wake up every morning new, free as a bird.” – Ashley Cole

57. “A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou

58. “Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where the flight will take them.” – Mark Nepo

59. “If birds can glide for long periods of time, then why can’t I?” – Orville Wright

60. “We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.” – John Webster

Bird quotes for people who love the majestic animals

61. “Birds sing even after the storm.” – Unknown

62. “A forest bird never wants a cage.” – Henrik Ibsen

63. “Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.” – David Attenborough

64. “A bird in a cage is not half a bird.” – Henry Ward Beecher

65. “Tomorrow, the birds will sing.” – Charlie Chaplin

66. “Wherever there are birds, there is hope.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

67. “I woke up this morning,

Smiled at the rising sun,

Three little birds,

Sat on my doorstep,

Singing sweet songs.” – Bob Marley

68. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

69. “If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” – Charles Lindbergh

70. “I know why the caged bird sings.” – Maya Angelou

Additional bird quotes and sayings

71. “Not humans, but birds often witness the most beautiful mornings in this world!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan 

72. “How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?” – Henry David Thoreau

73. “A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.” – A.A. Milne

74. “Each bird must sing with his own throat.” – Henrik Ibsen

75. “Without love we all like birds with broken wings.” – Mitch Albom

76. “Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.” – Miguel de Cervantes

77. “Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.” – Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

78. “Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

79. “I’m a big fan of parrots – I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it’s interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don’t really comprehend what they’re saying.” – Derren Brown

80. “The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.” – Alexander Theroux

Beautiful Bird Quotes About Nature

81. “There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.” — Robert Wilson Lynd

82. “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird, I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” — George Eliot

83. “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” — Rabindranath Tagore

84. Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.” — Tennessee Williams

85. “This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values….” — Laurie Halse Anderson

86. “I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.” — Terry Tempest Williams

87. “Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.” — Israelmore Ayivor

88. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild.” — Stephen King

89. “Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecotes.” — Henry David Thoreau

90. “…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” — Mark Nepo

Bird Quotes To Help You Maintain a Calm and Controlled Attitude.

91. “Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” — Rose Kennedy

92. “I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” — Emily Dickinson

93. It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries.” — John Masefield

94. “When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It’s better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.” — Donald Hall

95. “I think people who don’t believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn’t make?” — Little Richard 

96. “The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.” — Arthur Miller

97. “The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.” — Gilbert White

98. “Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. And don’t hate nobody.” — Eubie Blake

99. “I honestly like any sound. Birds. I have a very broad space to accept or enjoy anything except quiet.” — Ryuichi Sakamoto

100. “I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.” — Pat Buckley

Bird Quotes About Freedom

101. “Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It’s much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.” — Klaus Kinski

102. “I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You’re just as free as a bird!” — Bettie Page

103. “Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.” — Martial

104. “How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!” — Belva Plain

105. “I’m the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I’m doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.” — Jimmy Piersall

106. “He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.” — Herbert Gold

107. “I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.” ― Steve Carell

108. “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.” — Lois Lowry

109. “may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.” — E. e. cummings

110. “Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.” — Haruki Murakami

Bird Quotes To Give You Confidence To Fly

111. “It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.” ― Anne Baxter

112. “I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” ― Charles Lindbergh

113. “We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.” ― David Byrne

114. “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.” ― Michel de Montaigne

115. “I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.” ― Gladys Taber

116. “Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.” ― Winston Groom

117. “When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!” ― William Blake

118. “Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.” ― Yisroel Salanter

119. “I know what the caged bird feels, alas!” ― Paul Laurence Dunbar

120. “Like the birds, I will fly.” ― Victoria Forester

Bird Quotes To Motivate You To Soar The Sky

121. “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

122. “The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and you fly.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

123. “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

124. “Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can’t I?” — Judy Garland

125. “The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.” — Anzia Yezierska

126. “Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

127. “I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it’s guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.” — Kyle Dunnigan

128. “For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird.” — Josephine Hart

129. “Birds are magical.Their flight alone can arouse a clever thought.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

130. “Broken wings can heal, A bird is meant to fly” ― Kate Stradling 

Bird Quotes that Soar Above

131. “The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.” ― Jeremy Paxman

132. “Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.” ― Henry Ward Beecher

133. “Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.” ― Paul Eldridge

134. I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.” ― Coco Chanel

135. I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.” ― Pablo Neruda

136. “The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.” ― Li Bai

137. “As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.” ― Dave Barry

138. I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.” ― Anais Nin

139. “A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.” ― W. Somerset Maugham

140. “He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.” ― Henry David Thoreau

Bird Quotes to Elevate Your Spirits

141. “Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that’s good. And they’re elegant in the sky.” ― Roger Tory Peterson

142. The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.” ― Douglas Adams

143. “Birds fly and fish swim and I do this.” ― B.J. Penn

144. “Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.” ― Willa Cather

145. “Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.” ― Loren Eiseley

146. “Faith is a bird that can see the light when it is dawn and starts singing in the dark.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

147. “I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings.” ― Alejandra Pizarnik

148. “Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.” ― Chogyam Trungpa

149. “The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready.” ― Liam Williams

150. “Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it’s all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.” — Georges Bizet

151. “An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.” — Christie Watson

152. “That is how I think of peace and peace of mind-as timid birds that we have to search for, not bold ones that come looking for us.” — Margarita Engle

153. “The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.” — Sun Tzu

154. “The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.” — Douglas Coupland

155. “We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.” — Henning Mankell

156. “I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.” — Vikas Swarup

157. “Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.” — Charles Bowden

158. “I think the birds in the area are dying laughing watching me try not to crash.” — Cynthia Hand

159. “Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.” — Anthony Burgess

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Birds are some of the most beautiful and mysterious creatures in nature.

You’ll love these inspirational quotes if you’ve longingly watched a bird soar through the air.

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Share these bird quotes with all the animal lovers in your life.

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