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

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.' — Eileen Collins

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

I began my effort at improving my flight experiences by reading purposefully during my flights. My airplane reading would often be centered on themes. On some flights I would read only newspapers and magazines, catching up on one particular event. On other flights I would read a short novel, and finishing the entire book during the flight would give me a great thrill, as if I'd just flown a cross-Atlantic mission with Amelia Earhart. — Edwidge Danticat

Life is worthwhile in itself — Amelia Earhart

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

MYTH 141. | Amelia Earhart mysteriously vanished. The mystery behind her sudden disappearance was solved just four years after she went missing. Her plane was found to be crashed near an island in Kiribati and her skeletal remains were found close by as well. The skeleton matched her measurements. They also found her equipment near the wreckage. — John Brown

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 was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out. — Kristine K. Stevens

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

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me. — Keri Russell

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

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

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

To worry is to add another hazard. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her. — Kristen Schaal

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

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

Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know. — Joseph Force Crater

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids? — Brad Meltzer

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

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

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

The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded, her shiny twin-engine Electra never recovered. Earhart's legacy of inspiration is amplified because her adventure is perpetual. We don't think of her as dead; we think of her as missing. She is forever flying, somewhere beyond Lae, over that limitless blue horizon. — Josh Gates

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

Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone. — Brad Meltzer

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

What do dreams know of boundaries — 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

For some reason, these days we tend to downplay the importance of aggression, of taking risks, of barreling forward. It's probably because it's been negatively associated with certain notions of violence or masculinity. But of course Earhart shows that that isn't true. In fact, on the side of her plane she painted the words, "Always think with your stick forward." That is: You can't ever let up your flying speed - if you do, you crash. — Ryan Holiday

I really like Amelia Earhart. She's from Kansas. She disappeared, so I have to take her place. I want to be Dorothy. I want to be Amelia Earhart ... I want to do it all. — Lindsey Wixson

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

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the Dalai Lama, Amelia Earhart, Mahatma Gandhi? But Jobs focused on the integrity of Apple's products. — Laura Sydell

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

A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a "tip of my hat" to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly! — Christopher Gerard

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

Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart. — Walter Heller

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

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

As far as I could see, she didn't take any better care of her apparel than I did mine, but I owned shirts that looked like they'd been run through a car engine half an hour after I removed the price tags, and she had socks from high school that were still as white as palace linen. Women and their clothes often astounded me this way, but I figured it was one of those mysteries I'd never solve - like what really happened to Amelia Earhart or the bell that used to occupy our office. — Dennis Lehane

Missing what most of the time? The babbling faceless agora, the fame, the parties, the pop of flash bulbs? The lovers, the gaiety, the champagne? The solitude carved out of celebrity, poring over charts by a single lamp on a wide desk in a venerable hotel? Room service, coffee before dawn? The company of one friend, two? The choice: All of it or not? Some or none? Now, not now, maybe later? — Peter Heller

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

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

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

You can't go to the bathroom alone ... you might not come back. Cause no girl's ever been to the bathroom alone and survived. It's true. The last woman that attempted it, it was 1937 and her name was Amelia Earhart. — Iliza Shlesinger

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

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

Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — 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

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

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart. — Jim Sullivan

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