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.
CHRIS GARDNERIf you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.
More Chris Gardner Quotes
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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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There is no plan B for passion.
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The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
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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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If you want something, go get it. Period.
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Well, I really don’t want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I’m really passionate about painting.
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You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
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We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom’s nose, there’s nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That’s what I did.
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It can be done, but you have to make it happen.
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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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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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People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it.
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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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Always, always pursue happiness.
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Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.
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