The Best Advice I Ever Got Quotes

“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“I never learned anything when I was talking.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“... not far around the corner from every ugly experience is something really beautiful. And if you stop at every bitter comment you will never reach that beauty.

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― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“self-confidence is the most important characteristic of successful people.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“So just ask the question. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? “No” isn’t really so bad, and “Yes” might take you places you’d never expect.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“A boat is always safe in the harbor,” she wrote. “But that’s not what boats are built for.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Be secure enough in yourself to base success on personal growth.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“When you are doing something important, make sure you have a smile on your face and a shine on your shoes.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” And she taught me that there is always a way around a problem—you’ve just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It’s not the opposite of success; it’s an integral part of success.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It’s not the opposite of success; it’s an integral part of success. I”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Too often we still live with the pinched expectations of a culture of conformity, which sees daring as dangerous. Go along to get along: that’s its mantra. Only a principled refusal to be terrorized by these stingy standards will save you from a Frankenstein life made up of other people’s expectations grafted together into a poor imitation of existence. You can’t afford to do that. It is what has poisoned our culture, our community, and our national character. No one does the right thing from fear, and so many of the wrong things are done in its long shadow. Homophobia, racism, religious bigotry: they are all bricks in a wall that divides us, bricks cast of the clay of fear, fear of that which is different or unknown.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“All those people you pass as you climb the ladder of success could be the same ones who will catch you if you fall.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you’re really good at. Then just try to match them up!”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Next, write down five things that you’re really good at. Then just try to match them up!”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. —E. M. FORSTER”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives