Quotes by Amelia Earhart

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

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasnt any good reason to refer to it again.

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

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should 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.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasnt. Without my husbands 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.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

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

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldnt be done.

“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.”