Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Annie Oakley (American Markswoman)

Annie Oakley (1860–1926,) fully Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee, was an American sharpshooter. a Wild West performer, her marksmanship feats were spectacular, and she was often called “Little Sure Shot.”

Born into a Quaker family near Woodland, Darke County, Ohio, Oakley learned to shoot at an early age, helping to provide food for her family after her father’s death. She married Frank E Butler in 1880 after beating him in a shooting match.

Together they formed a trick-shooting act, and from 1885 toured widely with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. She never failed to delight her audiences, and she became the show’s star attraction—even shooting cigarettes from her husband’s lips. She could also shoot through the pips of a playing card tossed in the air (hence the term ‘Annie Oakleys’ used for complimentary tickets with holes punched into them to prevent them from being resold.) Oakley retired in 1922.

Oakley’s life was fictionalized in the Irving Berlin musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun (1946,) starring Ethel Merman. Her story has been adapted for other stage musicals and films, including Annie Oakley (1935) and Oakley in Tall Tales & Legends (1985; starring Jamie Lee Curtis.)

Novelist and historian Walter Havighurst wrote the biography Annie Oakley of the Wild West (1954.)

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Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second, and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting. Finally you’ll hit the bull’s-eye of success, for only practice will make you perfect.
Annie Oakley

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