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
Topics: Decision, Action, Determination
Adventure is worthwhile.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Adventure
Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Preparation
In soloing—as in other activities—it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Effectiveness, Action
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize its your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow you.
—Amelia Earhart
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
Topics: Courage, Bravery
The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. 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
Topics: Action
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
—Amelia Earhart
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Flying
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Flying
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
Topics: Flying
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Action
Please know I am quite 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 but a challenge to others.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Risk-taking, Men & Women, Challenges, Men, Motivation, Women, Enjoyment
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it again.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Worry
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
—Amelia Earhart
Topics: Women
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