Chris Gardner Quotes

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I inspire myself.

I would like to be re-considered as a person.

That was the biggest compliment that I can receive - making somebody wonder whether they have the problem, rather than what my problem is.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

Improvement begins with I.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Sometimes I amaze even myself.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.