Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANONothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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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.
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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