39 Encouraging & Motivational Amelia Earhart Quotes
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
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
— Amelia Earhart
There’s more to life than being a passenger.
— Amelia Earhart
I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.
— Amelia Earhart
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
— Amelia Earhart
Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
— 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
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
— Amelia Earhart
When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.
— Amelia Earhart
The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.
— Amelia Earhart
To worry is to add another hazard.
— Amelia Earhart
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
— Amelia Earhart
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.
— Amelia Earhart
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.
— Amelia Earhart
Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.
— Amelia Earhart
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
— Amelia Earhart
My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes.
— Amelia Earhart
I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through experience what she wants to do.
— 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
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
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
— Amelia Earhart
No borders, just horizons – only freedom.
— Amelia Earhart
As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.
— Amelia Earhart
You know the more one does the more one can do.
— Amelia Earhart
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
— Amelia Earhart
In aviation as a whole, women are outnumbered forty to one, but I feel that more will gain admittance as a greater number knock at the door. If and when you knock at the door, it might be well to bring an axe along; you may have to chop your way through.
— Amelia Earhart
If enough of us keep trying, we’ll get someplace.
— Amelia Earhart
Surely we must have something more to contribute to marriage than our bodies.
— Amelia Earhart
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.
— Amelia Earhart
In soloing – as in other activities, it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
— Amelia Earhart
I wasn’t brave, I just didn’t have time to be scared.
— Amelia Earhart
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.
— Amelia Earhart
Women will gain economic justice by proving themselves in all lines of endeavor, not by having laws passed for them.
— Amelia Earhart
I can think of lots of things worse than never getting married, and one of the worst is being married to a man who tied you down.
— Amelia Earhart
Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
— Amelia Earhart
Step out! Try the job you are interested in! Use the talents which give you joy! There’s plenty of time.
— Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act!
— Amelia Earhart
It is best to begin at the beginning.
— Amelia Earhart
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.
— Amelia Earhart
Top Amelia Earhart Quotes
I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
— Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
— 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 are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
— Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
— Amelia Earhart
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
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.
— Amelia Earhart
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
— Amelia Earhart
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
In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
— Amelia Earhart
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
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
Amelia Earhart Quotes to Inspire You
— Amelia Earhart
After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying.
— Amelia Earhart
Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
— Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.
— Amelia Earhart
Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?
— Amelia Earhart
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
— Amelia Earhart
Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
— Amelia Earhart
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
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
— Amelia Earhart
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.
— Amelia Earhart
Decide… whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
— Amelia Earhart
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
— Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
— Amelia Earhart
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