There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
JIM VALVANOWe 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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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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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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