Amelia Earhart quotes

Amelia Earhart, a pioneering aviator and women's rights advocate, made history in the early 20th century. Born in Kansas in 1897, Earhart's passion for flying led her to become the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. Her determination and bravery inspired many, breaking gender barriers of the time. Sadly, in 1937, during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, she vanished over the Pacific Ocean, leaving behind a legacy that still captures the imagination today. Amelia Earhart's extraordinary achievements continue to inspire generations, making her a beloved figure in aviation history.

In life you sometimes have to take the wheel yourself instead of just being a passenger.

- Amelia Earhart

If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

- Amelia Earhart

I'm getting housemaid's knee, kneeling here gulping beauty.

- 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

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

- Amelia Earhart

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

- Amelia Earhart

I did it for the fun of it.

- Amelia Earhart

I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through experience what she wants to do.

- Amelia Earhart

I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

- Amelia Earhart

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

- Amelia Earhart

Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths. Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.

- Amelia Earhart

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education.

- Amelia Earhart

Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

- Amelia Earhart

Don't criticize someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

- Amelia Earhart

Did I tell you I have a reputation for brains?

- Amelia Earhart

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

- Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

- Amelia Earhart

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

- Amelia Earhart

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.

- Amelia Earhart

Aviation records don't fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.

- Amelia Earhart

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.

- Amelia Earhart

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

- Amelia Earhart

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

- Amelia Earhart

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.

- Amelia Earhart

After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars.

- Amelia Earhart

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

- Amelia Earhart

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

- Amelia Earhart

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than to finish it.

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Amelia Earhart

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.

- Amelia Earhart