Cesar Millan famous quotes

To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.
-- Cesar Millan

#Loyalty #Teacher #Dog

In life... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds.
-- Cesar Millan

#Practice #Discipline #Balance

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.
-- Cesar Millan

#Heart #Mexican #Lucky

I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Believe #Yelling

There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'....
-- Cesar Millan

#Problem #Owners #Shortage

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Integrity #Believe

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.
-- Cesar Millan

#Kids #Shepherds #Rottweilers

You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Criminals #Stopping

But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn't mean he's balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn't mean he's balanced, either.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Mean #Graduates

Calm assertive energy is the energy you project to show your dog you are the Pack Leader. Assertive does not mean angry or aggressive. Calm-assertive means always compassionate, but quietly in control.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Mean #Leader

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Stories #Instinct

I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Helping #Mets

Aggression is not a breed thing. Its a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Ideas #Mind

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.
-- Cesar Millan

#Outcomes #Problem #Aggression

Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.
-- Cesar Millan

#Animal #Leader #Unstable

When a dog is balanced, you are going to enjoy a true friend.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #True Friend #Enjoy

Repetition creates the master.
-- Cesar Millan

#Healing #Masters #Repetition

She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.
-- Cesar Millan

#Real #Healing #Mean

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.
-- Cesar Millan

#Running #Dog #Exercise

Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let's do it.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Animal #Giving

When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Giving #Important

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Wall #Views

The pack is very important for a dog. Once you give him the right pack and the right energy, you look at him.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Giving #Important

Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.
-- Cesar Millan

#Reality #People #Effort

When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Discipline #People

I have always been honest with my fans, which means being open about any struggles I have had along the way.
-- Cesar Millan

#Struggle #Mean #Fans

Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.
-- Cesar Millan

#Kids #Together #Adults

Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness.
-- Cesar Millan

#Mother #Running #Negative

Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.
-- Cesar Millan

#Years #Goal #Wife

Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.
-- Cesar Millan

#Spiritual #Dog #Believe

Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #People #Leader

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.
-- Cesar Millan

#Mother #Dog #Window

Many dogs grow up without rules or boundaries. They need exercise, discipline and affection in that order.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Growing Up #Exercise

I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Believe #Loss

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
-- Cesar Millan

#Years #America #Age

Denial,they say, stands for"Don't even notice I am lying." Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.
-- Cesar Millan

#Lying #Animal #Mind

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Responsibility #Animal

All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That's why it's important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a 'power' breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Responsibility #Differences

It becomes very obvious, by reading a dog, how stable or unstable his human companion is. Our dogs are our mirrors.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Reading #Mirrors

If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.
-- Cesar Millan

#Running #Dog #Opportunity

Dogs do know how comfortable you are with yourself, how happy you are, how fearful you are, and what is missing inside of you.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Missing #Fearful

Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.
-- Cesar Millan

#Country #Dog #America

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.
-- Cesar Millan

#Thinking #Anarchy #Use

Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dna #Views #Play

I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.
-- Cesar Millan

#Inspiring #Dog #Mexican

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Humans #Persons

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.
-- Cesar Millan

#Goal #Humans #Explorers

Dog parks can be a fantastic way to socialize your dog, but it's important for owners to understand that a dog park isn't exercise and isn't a substitute for walk. A visit to the dog park is fun - play time.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Fun #Exercise

I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.
-- Cesar Millan

#Loud #Overpowering #Persons

Dogs help you to appreciate the world around you. They smell the ground so intensely. They look at the trees as though they are seeing them for the first time. It helps us to remember the wonders that we take for granted.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Smell #Appreciate

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.
-- Cesar Millan

#Intelligent #America #More Money

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.
-- Cesar Millan

#Hurt #Animal #Taming

I would love for the world to have a dog psychology center everywhere.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Psychology #World

People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #People #Way

Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Thinking #Forgiving

It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Companion

Dogs experience the world as it is, without judgement. When we learn to do the same, we make the world a better place.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Judgement #World

Dogs and other animals we bring into our homes serve as one of our most important links to Mother Nature. We may not think about it consciously, but they are our lifelines to a part of ourselves that we are at the brink of losing altogether.
-- Cesar Millan

#Mother #Dog #Home

Americans are very big about loving the dog first, so when you tell them you have to set rules and limitations, a lot of people believe it's going to hurt their feelings. They're actually looking for you to be the pack leader.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Hurt #Believe

When looking to adopt a new dog, the most important thing to consider is always the energy of the dog and how the dog will fit in with your lifestyle and your family.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Important #Energy

Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Intellectual #Bills

I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Kids #Wish

The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it's not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Reality #Challenges

People who live in the now; those people make things happen.
-- Cesar Millan

#People #Live In The Now #Things Happen

Children are becoming disobedient why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.
-- Cesar Millan

#Children #Becoming #Boundaries

My dogs have been my most loyal friends and constant companions.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Loyal #Companion

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.
-- Cesar Millan

#Beautiful #Moving #Animal

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Views #Appreciate

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Reflection #Energy

The dog can only become what's in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Energy #Wake Up

I believe a calm dog is a happy, obedient dog that won't get into trouble.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Believe #Calm

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.
-- Cesar Millan

#Ideas #Choices #Mind

Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.
-- Cesar Millan

#Dog #Self #Want