Claim ownership of your dreams.
CHRIS GARDNERI 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.’
More Chris Gardner Quotes
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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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Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
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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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Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump.
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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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Always, always pursue happiness.
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There is no plan B for passion.
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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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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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Well, I really don’t want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I’m really passionate about painting.
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The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
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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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The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
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Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something.
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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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