Amelia Earhart Quotes - Page 2

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.

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself as an individual. She must realize at the outset that a woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it. She must be aware of the various discriminations , both legal and traditional, against women in the business world.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; the process is its own reward. Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And if they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

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.

To worry is to add another hazard.

Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

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

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

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

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

The best way to do it, is to do it!

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

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.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

I did for the fun of it

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.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

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.

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.