Selected Quotes by Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart- Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer and writer.
She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records and was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel. She also wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
Selected Quotes by Amelia Earhart:
“Character is destiny.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“There is more to life than being a passenger.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“Life is worthwhile in itself.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“The more one does,the more one can do.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“But the fun of it is worth the price.”
― Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“But you know the more one does the more one can do.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never do things can and will do if there are things others cannot do and will not do.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“We’re always pushing through, hurrying on our long way, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we’d already got to.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to ensure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“What do dreams know of boundaries.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The best way to do it, is to do it!”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“...Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying....”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“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.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Life
“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.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Life
“Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex
“Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.”
― Amelia Earhart, Last Flight: The World's Foremost Woman Aviator Recounts, in Her Own Words, Her Last, Fateful Flight
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex
“Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex, Freedom
“Experiment! Meet new people. That's better than any college education. You will find the unexpected everywhere as you go through life. By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“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.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.”
Amelia Earhart, Courage
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release,
From little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.”
Amelia Earhart, Courage
“Did I tell you I have a reputation for brains?”
Amelia Earhart, Intelligence/Wisdom
“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.”
Amelia Earhart, Sex
“I, for one, hope for the day when women will know no restrictions because of sex but will be individuals free to live their lives as men are free—irrespective of the continent or country where they happen to live.”
Amelia Earhart, Sex, Freedom
“There is no doubt that the last hour of any flight is the hardest. If there are any clouds about to make shadows one is likely to see much imaginary land. . . .
As I approached shore I strained my eyes to see something recognizable, and there was nothing. However, I noticed a low place in the hills, and I thought, like the bear, I would go over the mountains to see what I could see.”
Amelia Earhart, Happiness
“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.”
Amelia Earhart, Happiness
“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”
― Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It
Amelia Earhart, Happiness
“I did for the fun of it.”
― Amelia Earhart, 20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship
Amelia Earhart, Happiness, Goals
“I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.”
Amelia Earhart, Freedom
“Don't criticize someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
Amelia Earhart, Criticism
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
Amelia Earhart, Kindness
“Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.”