112 Quotes by Amelia Earhart

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education. You will find the unexpected everywhere as you go through life. By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected.

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

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

Don’t criticize someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.

We’re always pushing through, hurrying on our long way, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we’d already got to.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little thing; 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.

I did for the fun of it.

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

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.