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.’
CHRIS GARDNERI hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
More Chris Gardner Quotes
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Always, always pursue happiness.
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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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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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If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.
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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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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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Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
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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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You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
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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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This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
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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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It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
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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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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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