I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
JIM VALVANONever give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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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.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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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.
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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
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