The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
CHRIS GARDNERThe 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.
More Chris Gardner Quotes
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You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
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This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
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Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump.
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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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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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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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Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
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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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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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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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If you want something, go get it. Period.
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Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something.
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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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