Amelia Earhart Quotes
Welcome to my Amelia Earhart quotes page. What an inspiring woman. She is one of my favorite heroines. She excelled in a field dominated by man and stood toe to toe with them. She was a pioneer in aviation during a time few women were known to fly.born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937; declared legally dead January 5, 1939
Aviation Pioneer and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
- AMELIA EARHART QUOTE OF THE PAGE
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. - 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.
- Please know that I am 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 a challenge to others.
- 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.
- Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
- Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
- Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
- 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.
- Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
- In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- 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 effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
- Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
- 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 esthetic appeal of flying.
- ...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. Some such consideration was a contributing reason for my wanting to do what I so much wanted to do.
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