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Quotes by Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart

“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldnt be done.”

“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.”

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”

“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.”

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

“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.”

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be ones appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

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

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

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

“The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain”

“What is enough? Enough is when somebody says, Get me the best people you can find and nobody notices when half of them turn out to be women”

“Women do two thirds of the worlds work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the worlds income and own less than one percent of the worlds property. They are among the poorest of the worlds poor.”

“We women dont care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it”

“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.”

“We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.”

“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”

“Its so sad how we can go through life hating people, thinking that they are so different from us. It is only when we see them at their weakest point, seeing their vulnerability, that we start to realize how similar we all actually are to one another.”

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life, she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.”

“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mothers love.”