Amelia Earhart Quotes

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.

The best way to do it, is to do it!

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

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.

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

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.

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.

Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

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.

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

The more one does the more one can do.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

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 endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

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.

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.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

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.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.

I did for the fun of it

Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

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.

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

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.

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

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.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

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.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

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.