The Best Advice Ever Given, New and Updated by Steven Price

Author:Steven Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493033799
Publisher: Lyons Press

Chapter Six

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Throw Your Dreams

{Advice to Inspire and Encourage}

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don’t give in to them.

—WINSTON CHURCHILL

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Get a cocktail shaker.

—JOSÉ ANDRÉS

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Ban self-doubt.

—JENNIFER LEE

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You can’t connect the dots looking forward.

—STEVE JOBS

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The world is more malleable than you think.

—BONO

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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

—ANAÏS NIN

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If you can dream it, you can do it.

—WALT DISNEY

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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

—MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

—KENJI MIYAZAWA

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

—LUCILLE BALL

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Be yourself. The world worships the original.

—INGRID BERGMAN

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Be careful what you set your heart upon—for it will surely be yours.

—JAMES BALDWIN

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What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.

—ALBERT EINSTEIN

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The secret of life is in opening up your heart.

—CHITA RIVERA

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Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

—ALBERT SCHWEITZER

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

—BARBARA SHER

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“Don’t be a blueprint. Be an original.”

—ROY ACUFF

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

—DALE CARNEGIE

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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

—RABINDRANATH TAGORE

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We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

—JOHN H. GROBERG

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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

—DUKE ELLINGTON

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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

—HENRY FORD

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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

—JANE AUSTEN

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

—T. S. ELIOT

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Life is good only when it is magical and musical, a perfect timing and consent, and when we do not anatomise it. You must treat the days respectfully . . . You must hear the bird’s song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

—GRACE HOPPER

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Disappointment should be cremated, not embalmed.

—HENRY S. HASKINS

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

—HELEN KELLER

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Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

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