Amelia Earhart quotes

Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author, famous for her flying achievements. Her solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean made her an international icon and a symbol of courage. She disappeared during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, and she continues to inspire generations with her adventurous spirit. Here are 31 of her quotes:

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others. (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. View quote
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Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done. View quote
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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. View quote
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself. View quote
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. View quote
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Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do. View quote
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. View quote
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Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting. View quote
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The best way to do it, is to do it! View quote
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Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. View quote
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No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. View quote
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The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. View quote
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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. View quote
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I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly. View quote
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Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture. View quote
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The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. . . . Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much. View quote
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. (Amelia Earhart)
The lure of flying is the lure of beauty. View quote
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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. View quote
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. View quote
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There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. View quote
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Amelia Earhart

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Occupation: American Aviator
Born: July 24, 1897
Died: January 5, 1939
Quotes count: 31
Wikipedia: Amelia Earhart

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