Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
JIM VALVANOI 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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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’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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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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