“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”

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.

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.

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.

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

Strength is crying, stumbling, falling, and yet finding the courage to get up and start yet again.

Repentance and forgiveness both require courage and strength.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.