Chris Gardner Quotes

Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
CHRIS GARDNER

Appreciation Attitude Blessing Gratitude Ourselves
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
Always, always pursue happiness.
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Happiness One Liner Pursue
The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.
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Important Life Yourself
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
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
Well, I really don’t want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I’m really passionate about painting.
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Myself Passionate
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.
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Dream Inspirational Protection
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
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
You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
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Believe Independent Yourself
This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
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Happiness Life Myself
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
It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
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Failure One Liner Quit
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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Eyes Greatness Rich Value World
The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
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Happiness Inspirational
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
If you want something, go get it. Period.
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Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Claim ownership of your dreams.
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Dream One Liner Yourself
Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump.
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Move On Yourself
I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
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Commitment Family Relationship Son

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