Amelia Earhart Quotes

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

I fight because I want to not because I have to.

Nobody is pushing me. Nobody is telling me what I do.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

The will of man is his happiness.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

I am not driven.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

I'm not driven by being understood.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.