“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.”
Amelia Earhart
Last Flight (Primary source)
Earhart’s posthumous 1937 journal, compiled from dispatches during her final around-the-world attempt, becomes an inadvertent elegy for American optimism. Her matter-of-fact accounts of technical challenges and geographical wonders now read as her last transmission before vanishing into mystery and legend.
“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.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
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“Time enough always proves little enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“I am always in love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it. We must act. We must act quickly.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt Primary source“There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source