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Amelia Earhart
16 quotes
“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things: Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poetry written around the time of the breaking of her "tenuous engagement" to Samuel Chapman (c. 1928), published in Amelia, My Courageous Sister : Biography of Amelia Earhart (1987) by Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Caro…
“How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poetry written around the time of breaking of her "tenuous engagement" to Samuel Chapman (c. 1928), published in Amelia, My Courageous Sister : Biography of Amelia Earhart (1987) by Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Carol L.…
“Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 Hrs., 40 Min. [borrowable] (1928), p. 180
“I understood. I was a girl-a "nervous lady." I might jump out. There had to be somebody on hand to grab my ankle as I went over. It was no use to explain I had seen aeroplanes before and wasn't excitable. I was not to be permitted to go alone in the front cockpit.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her first experience flying, and the skepticism of others. '20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 47
“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.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 16
“There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 34
“As I look back on the flight I think two questions have been asked me most frequently. First: Was I afraid? Secondly: What did I wear?”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 110
“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 (1897–1939) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Note to George P. Putnam, on the date of their wedding (7 February 1931), as quoted in The Sound of Wings (1989) by Mary S. Lovell
“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 (1897–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Original forward for the writings in Last Flight, as quoted in Lost Star : The Search for Amelia Earhart (1995) by Randall Brink, p. 85
“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 (1897–1939) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939) by George Palmer Putnam, p. 83
“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 (1897–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
Amelia Earhart (1897–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1897–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1897–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source