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Quotes by 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

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
– Amelia Earhart
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
– Amelia Earhart
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
– Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
– Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
– Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
– Amelia Earhart
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. 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
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
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
– Amelia Earhart
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
– Amelia Earhart
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
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
– Amelia Earhart
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