Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
Interpretation
Focus on your aspirations instead of your fears.
This quote encourages individuals to direct their attention toward their ambitions and desires rather than being held back by their anxieties and doubts. It suggests that a positive outlook and a commitment to pursuing one's dreams can lead to a more fulfilling life, allowing hope to guide decisions instead of fear-driven choices.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage students to pursue their goals despite challenges.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
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