“My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes.”

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

You can do anything you decide to do.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

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

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Let work itself be the ambition.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.