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.
Chris GardnerRead
Your net worth can fluctuate, but your self-worth should only appreciate.
Interpretation
Self-worth is inherently valuable and should not depend on material wealth.
In this quote, Chris Gardner emphasizes the importance of valuing oneself beyond monetary assets. While financial situations may change, one's intrinsic worth should consistently increase based on personal growth and self-acceptance, fostering resilience in the face of life's ups and downs.
In practice
During a motivational speech on self-improvement.
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.
I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.
I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.
The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you canβt wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.
You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That's how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.
I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.
I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.
The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it's the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.
I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think of talent and achievement and so on.
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