Amelia Earhart Quotes
165 Amelia Earhart Quotes
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I’m Amelia Earhart and this is my father… I want to learn to fly and I understand you teach students… Will you teach me?
Amelia Earhart
You see why I don’t care for these thoughtless, irresponsible young boys. Mature men wouldn’t have put us through such an experience…
Amelia Earhart
[On cutting her hair] No, I’m keeping it pinned up when I’m home. I only cut off a little every few weeks.
Amelia Earhart
[On an Airster plane] It was not a plane for a beginner.
Amelia Earhart
I am not marrying anybody.
Amelia Earhart
I plan to work very hard this year and [do] little else but fly.
Amelia Earhart
We didn’t expect to make money for a long time, we knew we’d make mistakes and have to find correctives. But what we build we intend to build solid and I think we have…
Amelia Earhart
I remember the sting of snow on my face as it was blown back from the propellers when the training plane took off on ski’s.
Amelia Earhart
I’ll see what I can do to keep Mother and Dad together, Pidge, but after that I’m going to come back here and live my own life.
Amelia Earhart
Perhaps this… doesn’t seem very convincing, for obviously my salary as a playmate of office boys would have to run on a long time before it would wipe out the balance of $2,000. But it did help my credit immensely! I think it made my flying companions believe I was in earnest.
Amelia Earhart
Not much more than a month ago I was on the other shore of the Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I look eastward over the Pacific. In those fast-moving days which have intervened, the whole width of the world had passed behind us – except this broad ocean. I shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us.
Amelia Earhart
Oh, for a country-wide campaign of sign painting!
Amelia Earhart
Coming down thought a hole in the clouds, any flyer is thankful for a definite check as to his location, even if it is only to check his navigation… imagine automobiling without signs! Imagine trying to recognize a new town the way flyers do – a hundred-mile-an-hour look at a checkerboard of streets and roofs, trees and fields, with highways and railroads radiating and crisscrossing and perhaps a river or two to complicate – or simplify – the geography lesson.
Amelia Earhart
I’m a flier pursing my passion for the fun of it.
Amelia Earhart
I’m going to fly around the world.
Amelia Earhart
I want to be free.
Amelia Earhart
I understand the danger, I can handle it.
Amelia Earhart
I will!
Amelia Earhart
I’ll make it, I know I will.
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
To all my friends, both near and far, let me say that you will hear from me in less than fifteen hours.
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 lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
Amelia Earhart
Please know 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.
Amelia Earhart
Spring hints its coming first for birds and aviators.
Amelia Earhart
The actual doing of a dangerous thing may require little courage. The preparation of it – the acceptance of the inevitable risks involved – may be a far greater test of morale.
Amelia Earhart
I prefer good mechanical work to rabbits’ feet.
Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
When I undertake a task over all protest and in spite of all adversity, I sometimes thrill with the realization that I am doing something I want to do.
Amelia Earhart
I could scarcely wait to be on my way.
Amelia Earhart
[From her mother] Shakespeare has no heroes: he has only heroines.
Amelia Earhart
[On planning to see an operation] [I] plan on getting everything I can, if I can wheadle anybody into letting me.
Amelia Earhart
I’m not in love with anybody – yet.
Amelia Earhart
Are you sure you’re ready to give up your career?
Amelia Earhart
Take to the air!
Amelia Earhart
Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying....
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
Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
Amelia Earhart
[My] value as a social worker is nil while this hullabaloo keeps up.
Amelia Earhart
Gentlemen, there is an aroma of cowardice in this air. Whether you live in fear or defend your integrity is your decision. I have made mine. I intend to fly to California within this next week, with our without your support.
Amelia Earhart
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