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Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

Chris Gardner

If you want something, go get it. Period.
CHRIS GARDNER

Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it’s the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.
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Fear Greatness People Reality Strong Wake Up
The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
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Happiness Inspirational
Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something.
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Inspirational Motivational
It can be done, but you have to make it happen.
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Inspirational Yourself
Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you’ll be surprised at where you might get to.
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Inspirational Yourself
I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
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Commitment Family Relationship Son
Do something that you love. Whatever you’re going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can’t come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.
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Inspirational Morning Rise Sun
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
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Death Leadership Mom
If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.
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Dream Inspirational Protection
The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
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Inspirational Love Rise Secret Success Sun Wait
But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
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Dream Necessary Yourself
There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
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Ability Language Learning Music
I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn’t sing and I couldn’t play ball, so I said to my mother, ‘How am I going to make a million dollars?’ And she said to me, ‘Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.’
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Believe Inspirational Mom Money Willing
Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
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Talk Time Walk
One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It’s the basics. Blocking and tackling.
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People Secret Success Young

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

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Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

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