Amelia Earhart

Quotes

• “Poetry written around the time of the breaking of her "tenuous engagement" to Samuel Chapman (c. 1928), published in Ame...”
• “Poetry written around the time of breaking of her "tenuous engagement" to Samuel Chapman (c. 1928), published in Amelia,...”
• “In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble...”
• “No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindn...”
• “The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If i...”
• “I understood. I was a girl-a "nervous lady." I might jump out. There had to be somebody on hand to grab my ankle as I we...”
• “As quoted in Have Fun with American Heroes : Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts (2005) by David C. King, p. 82;...”
• “The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do any...”
• “Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little thing...”
• “How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's domi...”
• “In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. Almost every beginner hop...”
• “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 ...”
• “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 fund...”
• “Amelia Earhart Collection of Papers, Memorabilia and Artifacts The world's largest collection of Earhart photographs, ar...”
• “I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bou...”
• “Originally Frederick William Faber, sermon "On Kindness in General", found in Spiritual Conferences, a collection of his...”
• “Original forward for the writings in Last Flight, as quoted in Lost Star : The Search for Amelia Earhart (1995) by Randa...”
• “As I look back on the flight I think two questions have been asked me most frequently. First: Was I afraid? Secondly: Wh...”
• “Note to George P. Putnam, on the date of their wedding (7 February 1931), as quoted in The Sound of Wings (1989) by Mary...”
• “Cited as Amelia Earhart, "My Husband," Redbook magazine (Sept. 1933) in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989), p. 10...”
• “General Correspondence: Earhart, Amelia, 1932-1934, The Wilbur and Orville Wright Papers at the Library of Congress”
• “Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.”
• “Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
• “Speech by Amelia Earhart from the collection American English Dialect Recordings, Library of Congress”
• “As quoted in Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939) by George Palmer Putnam, p. 83”
• “Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
• “On her first experience flying, and the skepticism of others. '20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 47”
• “A 1930's American Hope, Amelia Earhart, Essay by Mariette Vermeulen, April 3, 1997”
• “Chinese proverb, as quoted in The Homiletic Review, Vol. 90 (1925), p. 363”
• “There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.”
• “Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
• “Letter to her husband George P. Putnam, on the eve of her last flight”
• “Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
• “Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
• “Transcript of interview with Earhart biographer Susan Butler, 1997”
• “Amelia Earhart: On The Future Of Women In Flying (listen online)”
• “Amelia Earhart interview following the 1932 transatlantic flight”
• “Amelia Earhart's Flight Across America: Rediscovering a Legend”
• “As quoted in "She Drew Horses..." (2006) by Kelli Swan, p. 42”
• “Life and Mystery of Amelia Earhart slideshow by LIFE magazine”
• “Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
• “The Official Website of Amelia Earhart - Quotes”
• “20 Hrs., 40 Min. [borrowable] (1928), p. 180”
• “CG cutter Itasca and the search for Earhart”
• “Amelia Earhart Memorial flight Recreation”
• “Quotes at official Amelia Earhart Site”
• “Amelia Earhart official web site”
• “Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum”
• “20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 110”
• “20 Hrs., 40 Min. (1928), p. 16”