More from Jim Valvano
Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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More on failure
You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
ThucydidesThucydides Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.
ThucydidesThucydides Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester Stallone Study people’s success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.
Sylvester StalloneSylvester Stallone In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
ThucydidesThucydides Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SophoclesSophocles
