Amelia Earhart
aircraft pilot, memoirist, travel writer, journalist, women's rights activist, aviation writer
Read on Wikipedia1897 – 1939
All Quotes by 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.”
“I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
“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.”
“Courage is the price that The sound of wings.”
“How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate And count it fair.”
“Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.”
“In soloing—as in other activities—it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. Almost every beginner hops off with a whoop of joy, though he is likely to end his flight with something akin to the D.T.'s.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
“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.”
“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 most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”
“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.”
“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.”
“Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.”
“I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.”
“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.”
“Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.”
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.”
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
“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.”
“In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.”
“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.”
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
“There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.”
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
“Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
“Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.”