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| Quotations by Amelia Earhart |
 The commencement of a flying age - Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.The more one does and sees - 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. I am aware of the hazards - 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. The time to worry is three months before - The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. . . . Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much. Preparation, I have often said. . . - Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture. |
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