Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author who was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. Inspirational Amelia Earhart quotes will encourage you to live your adventure and enrich your thoughts on dreams, life, love and finding yourself.
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Most Famous Amelia Earhart Quotes
The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.
Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?
Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.
To worry is to add another hazard.
Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
In my life, I had come to realize that, when things were going very well, indeed, it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful break was apt to lurk just around the corner.
The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying
There’s more to life than being a passenger.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.
When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
To worry is to add another hazard.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education. By adventuring about you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is, the inevitable.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled, there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.
Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
In soloing as in other activities it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren’t routine, often don’t get a fair break it has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.
My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes.
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through experience what she wants to do.
I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren’t routine, often don’t get a fair break It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.
Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came the opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.
No borders, just horizons only freedom.
Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
You know the more one does the more one can do.
There’s more to life than being a passenger.
In aviation as a whole, women are outnumbered forty to one, but I feel that more will gain admittance as a greater number knock at the door. If and when you knock at the door, it might be well to bring an axe along; you may have to chop your way through.
Worry retards reaction and makes clear cut decisions impossible
If enough of us keep trying, we’ll get someplace.
By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is the inevitable.
Surely we must have something more to contribute to marriage than our bodies.
In my life, I had come to realize that, when things were going very well, indeed, it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful ‘break’ was apt to lurk just around the corner.
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two thirds of any venture.
In soloing as in other activities, it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who many want to fly tomorrow’s planes.
Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself as an individual. She must realize at the outset that a woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it. She must be aware of the various discriminations, both legal and traditional, against women in the business world.
