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(The movie) is the story of my life, but it’s not about me. It’s about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, ‘No, you can’t do it.’ You can.

Chris Gardner

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
Always, always pursue happiness.
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Happiness One Liner Pursue
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
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
You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
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Believe Independent Yourself
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
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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Determination People
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
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
It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
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Failure One Liner Quit
Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.
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Excitement Happiness Inspirational Love Money
This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
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Happiness Life Myself
I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
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Commitment Family Relationship Son
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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Choice Father Mom Spiritual
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

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it’s not about me. It’s about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, ‘No, you can’t do it.’ You can.

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(The movie) is the story of my life, but it’s not about me. It’s about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, ‘No, you can’t do it.’ You can.

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