27 Quotes & Sayings By Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was a pilot and adventurer who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and also held numerous records for long-distance flying. Earhart and her husband, George Putnam, were the first to fly the Atlantic Ocean in a single-engine plane. Earhart is known for flying solo across the Pacific Ocean in 1928, becoming the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. She also was the first woman to solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 Read more

Earhart was one of the most famous women in aviation history.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
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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
I want to do it because I want to do...
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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 but a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart
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Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done. Amelia Earhart
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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
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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
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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. Amelia Earhart
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One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity. Amelia Earhart
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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 own appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship. Amelia Earhart
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I want to do it because I want to do it. Amelia Earhart
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In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. Amelia Earhart
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart
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The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. Amelia Earhart
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There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls. Amelia Earhart
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Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again. Amelia Earhart
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There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. Amelia Earhart
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. Amelia Earhart
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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. Amelia Earhart
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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. Amelia Earhart
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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. Amelia Earhart
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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. Amelia Earhart
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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. Amelia Earhart
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. Amelia Earhart
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I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. Amelia Earhart
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The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. Amelia Earhart