Amelia Earhart Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  College, People, Unexpected

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• Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

  Amelia Earhart

  Cutting, Worry, Decision

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• Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. You can do anything you decide to do.
  You can act to change and control your life; the process is its own reward.
  Women, like men, should try to do the impossible.
  And if they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

  Amelia Earhart

  Men, Challenges, Trying

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• 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

  Inspirational, Courage, Fear

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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• 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

  Appreciation, Women, Home

  "Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by George Palmer Putnam, 1939.

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• 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

  Realizing, Trouble, Break

  "Last Flight (". Book by Amelia Earhart, 1937.

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• It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

  Amelia Earhart

  Relationship, Men, Dating

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• Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

  Amelia Earhart

  Way, Crisis, Humans

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• Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

  Amelia Earhart

  Ex Girlfriend, Feeling Alone, Scary

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• There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

  Amelia Earhart

  Leadership, Two, Hypocrisy

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart

  Strong Women, Jobs, Winning

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• Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

  Amelia Earhart

  Realization, Anticipation, Sometimes

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.46, Crown

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• Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

  Amelia Earhart

  Home, Reality, Chinese

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• The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

  Amelia Earhart

  Flying, Aviation, Flight

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.32, Crown

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• 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

  Stars, Night, Flying

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• Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Sex, Women

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• 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

  Courage, Women, Failure

  Letter to George Putnam, 1937

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• The best way to do it, is to do it!

  Amelia Earhart

  Way, Best Way

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• 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

  Women, Airplane, Sisterhood

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• Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

  Amelia Earhart

  Travel, Fun, Flying

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• Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

  Amelia Earhart

  Interesting, Flying, Age

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• 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

  Sisterhood, Firsts, Empowering Women

  1928 20 Hours: 40 MinutesOur Flight in the Friendship, ch.5.

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• I did for the fun of it

  Amelia Earhart

  Fun

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• The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
  With courage to behold the restless day,
  And count it fair.

  Amelia Earhart

  Choices, Soul, Pay

  "Amelia, My Courageous Sister : Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Carol L. Osborne, 1987.

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• Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

  Amelia Earhart

  Fall, Records, Aviation

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