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Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something.

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
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
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
This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
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Happiness Life Myself
The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
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Happiness Inspirational
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
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Appreciation Attitude Blessing Gratitude Ourselves
Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump.
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Move On Yourself
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
There is no plan B for passion.
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Passion Planning
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
Always, always pursue happiness.
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Happiness One Liner Pursue
It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
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Failure One Liner Quit
Claim ownership of your dreams.
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Dream One Liner Yourself
The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
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Important Life Yourself
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
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 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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Film Inspirational Perseverance Story
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
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
Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something.
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Inspirational Motivational
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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Difference Myself Shine Time Wind
I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
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Commitment Family Relationship Son
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
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
Well, I really don’t want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I’m really passionate about painting.
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Myself Passionate
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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Eyes Greatness Rich Value World

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