Earhart Quotes

#1. Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.

Walter Heller

#2. I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Kristine K. Stevens

#3. This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her.

Kristen Schaal

#4. I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

Jim Sullivan

#5. Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a "tip of my hat" to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

Christopher Gerard

#7. Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#8. Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know.

Joseph Force Crater

#9. I really like Amelia Earhart. She's from Kansas. She disappeared, so I have to take her place. I want to be Dorothy. I want to be Amelia Earhart ... I want to do it all.

Lindsey Wixson

#10. Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Eileen Collins

#11. You can't go to the bathroom alone ... you might not come back. Cause no girl's ever been to the bathroom alone and survived. It's true. The last woman that attempted it, it was 1937 and her name was Amelia Earhart.

Iliza Shlesinger

#12. Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

Keri Russell

#13. Even under Apple founder Steve Jobs, the company did emphasize values. Remember the Think Different ad campaign that used pictures of the Dalai Lama, Amelia Earhart, Mahatma Gandhi? But Jobs focused on the integrity of Apple's products.

Laura Sydell

#14. Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.

Brad Meltzer

#15. To worry is to add another hazard.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#17. I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#20. Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#22. Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

#23. Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#26. 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

#27. The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many.
i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#30. Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.

Amelia Earhart

#31. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#33. When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it.

Amelia Earhart

#34. No borders, just horizons - only freedom.

Amelia Earhart

#35. The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.

Amelia Earhart

#36. Experiment! Meet new people. That's better than any college education ... By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is ... the inevitable.

Amelia Earhart

#37. Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#39. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

Amelia Earhart

#40. The most effective way to do it is to do it.

Amelia Earhart

#41. Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#43. 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.

Amelia Earhart

#44. How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

Amelia Earhart

#45. 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

#46. Use your fear ... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#48. Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

Amelia Earhart

#49. 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.

Amelia Earhart

#50. My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

Amelia Earhart

#51. But you know the more one does the more one can do.

Amelia Earhart

#52. Everyone has ocean's to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Amelia Earhart

#53. You can do anything you decide to do.

Amelia Earhart

#54. What do dreams know of boundaries

Amelia Earhart

#55. Never do things can and will do if there are things others cannot do and will not do.

Amelia Earhart

#56. I did for the fun of it

Amelia Earhart

#57. The more one does,the more one can do.

Amelia Earhart

#58. One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break ... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

Amelia Earhart

#59. Did I tell you I have a reputation for brains?

Amelia Earhart

#60. The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.

Amelia Earhart

#61. 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.

Amelia Earhart

#62. Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Amelia Earhart

#63. 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

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

Amelia Earhart

#65. No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. 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

#66. 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.

Amelia Earhart

#67. Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#69. I want to do it because I want to do it.

Amelia Earhart

#70. So 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

#71. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Amelia Earhart

#72. Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Amelia Earhart

#73. The best way to do it, is to do it!

Amelia Earhart

#74. Life is worthwhile in itself

Amelia Earhart

#75. Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

#76. Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

Amelia Earhart

#77. You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.

Amelia Earhart

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

Amelia Earhart

#79. The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.

Amelia Earhart