Quotes from Amelia Earhart

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

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, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate Unless we dare The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

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

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

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 nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear the sound of wings. How can life grant us boon of living, compensate for dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate unless we dare the souls dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold resistless day and count it fair.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

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

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

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

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.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.