This quote is commonly attributed to Amelia Earhart, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“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.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
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“Where should we go? I don’t care. Anywhere you want. Anywhere we don’t know people.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“I don’t want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Observe all men; thyself most.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source