Amelia Earhart

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

“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 (1897-1939)

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

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

“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 (1897-1939)

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

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

“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 (1897-1939)

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

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

"The more one does the more one can do."

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

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

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

"Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times."

—Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)