Amelia Earhart Quotes & Sayings

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. — Amelia Earhart

If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace. — Amelia Earhart

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

Life is worthwhile in itself — Amelia Earhart

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization. — Amelia Earhart

The more one does,the more one can do. — Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

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

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. — Amelia Earhart

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

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. — Amelia Earhart

Did I tell you I have a reputation for brains? — Amelia Earhart

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting. — Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

But you know the more one does the more one can do. — Amelia Earhart

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

I did for the fun of it — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. — Amelia Earhart

Never do things can and will do if there are things others cannot do and will not do. — Amelia Earhart

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

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. — Amelia Earhart

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair. — Amelia Earhart

To worry is to add another hazard. — Amelia Earhart

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

The most effective way to do it is to do it. — Amelia Earhart

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

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly. — Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

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

No borders, just horizons - only freedom. — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible. — Amelia Earhart

The best way to do it, is to do it! — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

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

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times. — Amelia Earhart

Decide ... whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying ... — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

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

The most effective way to do it, is to just do it. — Amelia Earhart

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. — Amelia Earhart

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

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. — Amelia Earhart

What do dreams know of boundaries — Amelia Earhart

You can do anything you decide to do. — Amelia Earhart

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

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. — Amelia Earhart

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done. — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

I want to do it because I want to do it. — Amelia Earhart

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

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

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. — Amelia Earhart

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? — Amelia Earhart

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

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. — Amelia Earhart

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

Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do. — Amelia Earhart