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The Quotable Books Series ...
How to Live Your Dreams
(sample quotations from the book)
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. — Howard Aiken
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. — James Allen, author, As a Man Thinketh
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. — David Ben-Gurion, Israeli leader
Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them. — Josie Bisset
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. — Erma Bombeck, humor columnist
To me, business isn’t about wearing suits and pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. — Richard Branson, billionaire entrepreneur
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain. — Rita Mae Brown, playwright and feminist
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. — cadet maxim, U.S. Military Academy, West Point
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. — Rachel Carson, environmentalist
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. — Bette Davis, actress, The Lonely Life
We reward those who can stir our emotions to the greatest heights—actors, athletes and rock musicians make millions because they know how to turn on our passion. — Barbara DeAngelis, author, Passion
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. — William Dement, scientist
If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. — Linda Ellerbee, TV journalist
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. — Andre Gidé, novelist and critic
The great moments, when the world cheers, are not the moments that count. The ones that count are when it’s just you, and people have stopped believing in you. Those are the moments that define you. — Bob Greene, columnist
Don't believe there's plenty of time for everything. There isn't. — Lillian Hellman, playwright
Dream of a world where we measure character by how much we share and care, not by how much we take and consume. — Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader
Whenever I’m taking time off, all I’m thinking about is working. I feel like right now I have a one-in-a-million chance. There are so many great actors who are unemployed, and seeing them makes you wonder why everything’s happening for you. It’s luck. I’m just lucky. But to have this strange breakout, it’s just a dream. It really is. — Scarlett Johansson, actress
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. — Garrison Keillor, radio humorist
I didn’t get here by dreaming about it or thinking about it—I got here by doing it. — Esteé Lauder, fashion designer
If being an egomaniac means that I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that. I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. — John Lennon, rock singer
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren, actress
You have talent and intelligence and a chance. I think you should take those goals and expand them. Think of the most you could do with your lives. Make what you do matter. Above all, dream big. — Catherine Marshall, author
Dreams don’t have an expiration date. — David Niven, author, 100 Simple Secrets of the Best Half of Life
At first our dreams seem impossible, then they seem improbable, but when we summon the will, they become inevitable. — Christopher Reeve, actor and director
Here are the other seven books in the Illustrated Quotable Books section. Click on the titles to see sample quotations:
The Best Things in Life Are Free: My Favorite Quotations
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again
If God Intended Man to Smoke, He’d Have Set Him on Fire … and Other Conclusions of God’s Work
If I Had My Life to Live Over . . .
Playing the Percentages: Lies, Damned Funny Lies, Statistics, and Everything in Between
When in Doubt, Kiss the Fish — And Other Extremely Wise Advice
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