Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Business
  • You
  • Advertising

• How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?

  

  Dai Vernon
  • Magic
  • Effects

• Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Heart
  • May
  • Success

• I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Thinking

• Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Good
  • Value
  • Sense

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Education
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Kindness
  • Records

• We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • World
  • Better
  • Strive

• Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Victory
  • Afraid
  • Defeat

• Books wind into the heart.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Wind

• Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Speak

• The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Price
  • Civilized
  • Renunciation

• When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."

  

  W. Earl Brown
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Needs

• Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Moving
  • Dinner

• Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.

  

  Michael Anti
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Humans

• Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Stand
  • Determine

• It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Failing
  • Quitting