Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. — Amelia Earhart · Smartyfair

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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. — Amelia Earhart · Smartyfair

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart1897–1937 · aviator · 1900s USAAmelia Earhart was a pioneering pilot who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.7 quotes

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Being brave is what you pay to feel calm afterwards.

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Where these words come from

How sure this is: 75% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
What turned up: Purdue University's official archival catalog (George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers) holds a 1928 broadside of the poem 'Courage,' with metadata stating it first appeared in 'Who is Amelia Earhart?' by Marion Perkins, Survey Graphic magazine, July 1928, p.60.
Sources checked: futilitycloset.comChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 20 August 2026reproduces the poem with context
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Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

More on courage

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

1900s

Checked using claude-sonnet-5, 20 August 2026

Purdue Libraries archival metadata record confirming the poem's 1928 broadside, authorship, and original Survey Graphic (July 1928, p.60) publication.

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Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

Often just being with a group who doesn't think flying strange, is a help in itself.

I think I'd like to learn to fly.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius