If you want something, go get it. Period.
CHRIS GARDNERYou can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
More Chris Gardner Quotes
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It can be done, but you have to make it happen.
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If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.
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Always, always pursue 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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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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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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I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
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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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Claim ownership of your dreams.
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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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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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Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump.
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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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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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It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
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