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Timeline:
Quotes:
"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price."
"I
have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hopae this trip is it. Anyway when I
have finished this job, I mean to give up long-distance ‘stunt’ flying."
"Not
much more than a month ago I was on the other shore of the Pacific, looking westward. This evening, I looked eastward over
the Pacific. In those fast-moving days which have intervened, the whole width of the world has passed behind us -except this
broad ocean. I shall be glad when we have the hazards of its navigation behind us."
-- Amelia Earhart, several days before she left for Howland Island and disappeared
"...decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying...."
"I
lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can oly say that I do it because I want
to."
"After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that
the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they
know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying."
"Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization."
"KHAQQ
calling Itasca.
We must be on you but cannot see you...gas is running low..."
"Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible."
"The field was wet, the lane
was wet and the spirits of my mechanic and helper were damp."
"The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before
have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night."
"Better
do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."
"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."
"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."
"One
of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has
come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity."
"Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture."
"The woman who can create her own
job is the woman who will win fame and fortune." "It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it."
"Courage
is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things."
"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."
"The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we
pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair."
"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they
fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."
"[Women] must pay for everything.... They do get more glory
than men for comparable feats. But, also, women get more notoriety when they crash."
"...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. Some such consideration was a contributing
reason for my wanting to do what I so much wanted to do."
"In my life I had come to realize that when things were
going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that
at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the
corner."
"Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done."
"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."
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others
cannot do or will not do."
"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."
"The most effective
way to do it, is to do it."
"Please know I am quite 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 but a challenge to others."
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