40 Famous Quotes by Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was a trailblazer who challenged gender stereotypes and inspired generations of women to pursue their dreams. Earhart's disappearance during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 remains a mystery, but her legacy as a pioneering aviator and feminist icon lives on. Her courage and determination in the face of adversity continue to inspire people around the world to chase their own dreams and break down barriers. (Amelia Earhart Biography).
Amelia Earhart Famous Quotes
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. (Meaning)
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. (Quote Meaning)
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. (Meaning)
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. (Quote Meaning)
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. (Meaning)
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. (Quote Meaning)
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. (Meaning)
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. (Quote Meaning)
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. (Meaning)
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. (Quote Meaning)
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. (Meaning)
No borders, just horizons - only freedom. (Quote Meaning)
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly. (Meaning)
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. (Quote Meaning)
The best way to do it, is to do it! (Meaning)
The lure of flying is the lure of beauty. (Quote Meaning)
It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. (Meaning)
You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. (Quote Meaning)
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
"Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash."
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others."
"I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty."
"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."
"There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls."
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done."
"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
"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."
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
"In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it."
"Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do."
"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."
"Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."
"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."
"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war."
"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."
― Amelia Earhart Quotes
* Want to explore more inspiring quotes and their meanings? Head over to this quotes page, where I share doses of inspiration through powerful sayings and quotes.
Chief Editor
Tal Gur is an author, founder, and impact-driven entrepreneur at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own daring design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 major life goals around the globe. His journey and most recent book, The Art of Fully Living, has led him to found Elevate Society.
