Amelia Earhart: Doing

Amelia Earhart was American aviation pioneer and author. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”

Amelia Earhart book Last Flight

Letter to her husband George P. Putnam, on the eve of her last flight
Last Flight (1937)
Context: 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.

For women , Success , Powerful , Back To Work

“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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Wise , Life , Fear , Decision

“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

As quoted in Soaring Wings : A Biography of Amelia Earhart (1939) by George Palmer Putnam, p. 83
Cited as Amelia Earhart, "My Husband," Redbook magazine (Sept. 1933) in Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings (1989), p. 101.

For Him , For Boyfriend , Love , Feeling

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

Amelia Earhart

As quoted in "She Drew Horses..." (2006) by Kelli Swan, p. 42
Disputed

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

Amelia Earhart

As quoted in Have Fun with American Heroes : Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts (2005) by David C. King, p. 82; this is also attributed to Dawson Trotman in Through Her Eyes : Life and Ministry of Women in the Muslim World (2005) by Marti Smith, p. 116
Disputed

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

Amelia Earhart

Chinese proverb, as quoted in The Homiletic Review, Vol. 90 (1925), p. 363
Misattributed

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