Top 60 Amelia Earhart Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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

— Amelia Earhart

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3. “The best way to do it, is to do it!”

— Amelia Earhart

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4. “No borders, just horizons – only freedom.”

— Amelia Earhart

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5. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

— Amelia Earhart

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6. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”

— Amelia Earhart

7. “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

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8. “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

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9. “Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.”

— Amelia Earhart

10. “When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.”

— Amelia Earhart

11. “You can do anything you decide to do.”

— Amelia Earhart

12. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act!”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Amelia Earhart

14. “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

15. “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.”

— Amelia Earhart

16. “The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”

— Amelia Earhart

17. “Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”

— Amelia Earhart

18. “Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.”

— Amelia Earhart

19. “The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Amelia Earhart

21. “Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Amelia Earhart

23. “No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.”

— Amelia Earhart

24. “It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.”

— Amelia Earhart

25. “The more one does the more one can do.”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Amelia Earhart

27. “I did for the fun of it.”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Amelia Earhart

29. “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

30. “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

31. “What do dreams know of boundaries.”

— Amelia Earhart

32. “Aviation records don’t fall until someone is willing to mortgage the present for the future.”

— Amelia Earhart

33. “You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.”

— Amelia Earhart

34. “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

35. “Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”

— Amelia Earhart

36. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”

— Amelia Earhart

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

— Amelia Earhart

38. “There is more to life than being a passenger.”

— Amelia Earhart

39. “To worry is to add another hazard.”

— Amelia Earhart

40. “There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.”

— Amelia Earhart

41. “Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.”

— Amelia Earhart

42. “The field was wet, the lane was wet, and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp.”

— Amelia Earhart

43. “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

44. “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

45. “The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.”

— Amelia Earhart

46. “Trouble in the air is very rare. It is hitting the ground that causes it.”

— Amelia Earhart

47. “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

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48. “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

49. “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

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

— Amelia Earhart