Amelia Earhart Quotes
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Amelia Earhart was born on the 24th of July 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, United States.
Below, you will find the best Amelia Earhart quotes and sayings.
45 Amelia Earhart Quotes
“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
“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.” – 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
“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
“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
“I wasn’t brave, I just didn’t have time to be scared.” – Amelia Earhart
“I have never lived more than four years in any one place and always have to ask ‘Which one?’ when a stranger greets me by saying, ‘I’m from your home town’.” – Amelia Earhart
“I’ll see what I can do to keep Mother and Dad together until you finish college, Pidge, but after that I’m going to come back here and live my own life.” – Amelia Earhart
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.” – 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
“The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.” – 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
“Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” – Amelia Earhart
“It is best to begin at the beginning.” – Amelia Earhart
“In aviation as a whole, women are outnumbered forty to one, but I feel that more will gain admittance as a greater number knock at the door. If and when you knock at the door, it might be well to bring an axe along; you may have to chop your way through.” – Amelia Earhart
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?” – Amelia Earhart
“There’s more to life than being a passenger.” – Amelia Earhart
“The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.” – Amelia Earhart
“I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through experience what she wants to do.” – Amelia Earhart
“You know the more one does the more one can do.” – Amelia Earhart
“Young people and old people, too, are too timid about experimenting trying their little adventures, flying their own Atlantics. Step out! Try the job you are interested in! Use the talents which give you joy! There’s plenty of time.” – Amelia Earhart
“Honor is the foundation of courage.” – Amelia Earhart
“I must continue to be a heroine in the public eye, otherwise flying opportunities will stop rolling in.” – 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
“The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.” – Amelia Earhart
“Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.” – Amelia Earhart
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
“Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.” – Amelia Earhart
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
“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
“Surely we must have something more to contribute to marriage than our bodies.” – Amelia Earhart
“No pay, no fly, and no work, no pay.” – Amelia Earhart
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.” – Amelia Earhart
“I can think of lots of things worse than never getting married, and one of the worst is being married to a man who tied you down.” – Amelia Earhart
“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.” – Amelia Earhart
“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.” – Amelia Earhart
“No borders, just horizons – only freedom.” – Amelia Earhart
“I could not see. I carried on.” – Amelia Earhart
“Women will gain economic justice by proving themselves in all lines of endeavor, not by having laws passed for them.” – Amelia Earhart
“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.” – Amelia Earhart
“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.” – 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
“You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.” – Amelia Earhart
“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.” – Amelia Earhart