Amelia Earhart

Aviator

1897-07-24 – 1937-07-02

Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Quotes by Amelia Earhart

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done— occasionally what men have not done— thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
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Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.
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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.
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Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done— occasionally what men have not done— thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
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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.
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Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.
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Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.
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There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
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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.
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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.
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
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Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
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