Amelia Earhart Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

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

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

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

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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

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

No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

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

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

You can do anything you decide to do.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The more one does the more one can do.

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

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

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

To worry is to add another hazard.

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

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.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

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

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.

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

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

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

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

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

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

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.

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.

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

I did for the fun of it