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It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.

Chris Gardner

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
If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.
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Dream Inspirational Protection
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
The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
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Important Life 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something.
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Inspirational Motivational

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