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Claim ownership of your dreams.

Chris Gardner

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 is no plan B for passion.
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Passion Planning
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
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
It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
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Failure One Liner Quit
If you want something, go get it. Period.
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Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
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
You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
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Believe Independent 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
It can be done, but you have to make it happen.
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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
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 world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
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Happiness Inspirational
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
(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

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