Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
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Amelia EarhartPoem written c. 1928, published in Amelia, My Courageous Sister (1987)
About Amelia Earhart
Aviation pioneer and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. (1897-1937)
More from Amelia Earhart
- Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.Last Flight (1937)
- The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do.As quoted in Soaring Wings by George Palmer Putnam (1939)
- Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.Letter to George Palmer Putnam (1937), published in Last Flight
More quotes on courage
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.Virginia Woolf
- There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.Jane Austen
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.Kurt Vonnegut
- Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Ray Bradbury
- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.George Orwell
- It's a lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.Muhammad Ali
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