Chris Gardner Quotes

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Every person can reach a full life.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

I wanted a fulfilling life, what every person wants. And then I just made a decision to leave music to venture out and go after what it is I always wanted, and that was total life prosperity.

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.