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:

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

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

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

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

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

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

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.

Amelia Earhart

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

Amelia Earhart

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.

Amelia Earhart

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

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

Amelia Earhart