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The Pursuit of Happyness: Resilience, Grit & Never Giving Up

Mar 7, 2026 · 5 min read

Chris Gardner's story of homelessness, fatherhood, and eventual triumph is a testament to what the human spirit can endure. These quotes carry the full weight of that journey.

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Don't ever let somebody tell you that you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream — you gotta protect it.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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You got a dream. You gotta protect it.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of doubt and fear were simply that — voices.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of Happyness (memoir)
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I was homeless but I was never hopeless.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of Happyness (memoir)
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Walk that walk and go forward all the time.

Chris Gardner The Pursuit of Happyness (memoir)
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The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

Chris Gardner Attributed
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I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Carl Jung Attributed
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain Attributed
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca Letters to Lucilius
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama Attributed
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Attributed
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle.

Orison Swett Marden Attributed
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It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nelson Mandela Attributed