Amelia Earhart Quotes

165 Amelia Earhart Quotes

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Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
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

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart

I could not see. I carried on.
Amelia Earhart

Surely we must have something more to contribute to marriage than our bodies.
Amelia Earhart

You know the more one does the more one can do.
Amelia Earhart

I wasn’t brave, I just didn’t have time to be scared.
Amelia Earhart

There’s more to life than being a passenger.
Amelia Earhart

Young people and old people, too, are too timid about experimenting trying their little adventures, flying their own Atlantics. 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 effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart

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



No pay, no fly, and no work, no pay.
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 have never lived more than four years in any one place and always have to ask ‘Which one?’ when a stranger greets me by saying, ‘I’m from your home town’.
Amelia Earhart

Honor is the foundation of courage.
Amelia Earhart

[On her alcoholic father] Poppy was such a lamb last night I came near coming back to him.
Amelia Earhart

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

[On asking classmates to give some of their class ring money to help the war effort] We others are only asking [that] we turn our money to the Red Cross and have only a little band.
Amelia Earhart

[On seeing the physical impact of war on people] Men without arms and legs, men who were paralysed and men who were blind. One day I saw four one-legged men at once, walking as best as they could down the road together.
Amelia Earhart

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
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



I’ll see what I can do to keep Mother and Dad together until you finish college, Pidge, but after that I’m going to come back here and live my own life.
Amelia Earhart

[On seeing a plane for the first time when she was 11 years old] It was a thing of wire and wood. I was much more interested in an absurd hat made of inverted peach basket which I had purchased for fifteen cents.
Amelia Earhart

I must continue to be a heroine in the public eye, otherwise flying opportunities will stop rolling in.
Amelia Earhart

It is best to begin at the beginning.
Amelia Earhart

The rules of female conduct, bewildered and annoyed [me].
Amelia Earhart

[On using a boys sled] I wanted to use it for belly whoppers.
Amelia Earhart

[On lying down rather than sitting on a sled] That tomboy method saved my life.
Amelia Earhart

[In grade one at school] I can remember days when I was the only one in my class.
Amelia Earhart

[Written when age 8] I watch the birds flying all day long. And I want to fly too. Don’t they look down sometimes I wonder and wish they were me. When I’m going to the circus with my daddy?
Amelia Earhart

[On old children’s books] They were all about very good little boys and girls emerging triumphant over very bad little boys and girls. They reminded me of the dull sermons I was forced to sit through on Sunday mornings.
Amelia Earhart



[To her grade three maths teacher] Why bother to write out the steps if I can deduce the answer in my head?
Amelia Earhart

I was fond of basketball.
Amelia Earhart

[On cutting up a whole chicken] It was both educational and unusual.
Amelia Earhart

[On making her own rollercoaster at home] Oh… its just like flying.
Amelia Earhart

[On not taking the bus in the snow] I can save ten cents by walking.
Amelia Earhart

[To her sister on wearing a new green dress] If it should begin to rain, for heaven’s sakes, get under shelter before you leave a trail of green dye on the side walk.
Amelia Earhart

It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart

[On changing goals] After a year of study I convinced myself that some of my abilities did not measure up to the requirements which I felt a physician should have. It took me only a few months to discover I probably should not make the ideal physician [concerned] among other possibilities of sitting at the bedside of a hypochondriac and handing out innocuous sugar pellets to a patient with an imaginary illness.
Amelia Earhart

I am going to surprise you!
Amelia Earhart

It seems odd that a family could be broken up by geography but my mother hates the west and my father hates the east.
Amelia Earhart



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