Dave Pelzer famous quotes

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Childhood #Soul #Darkness

In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing
-- Dave Pelzer

#Baseball #Mistake #Fall

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Self Worth #Accepted #Process

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Meaningful #Heart #Important

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Moving On #Being Yourself #Mistake

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Strong #People #Understanding

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Children #Hate #Play

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Cancer #Survivor #Mindset

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Done #Answers #Better Person

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Lying #Dark #Past

One Child's courage to survive
-- Dave Pelzer

#Children

The most beautiful highway in the world
-- Dave Pelzer

#Beautiful #World #Highways

well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents
-- Dave Pelzer

#Mother #Home #Men

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Speak #Dave #Mania

My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Dna #Fans #Buying

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Wife #Former #Stills

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Mother #Abuse #Want

Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Fate #Support #Draws

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Mother #Blue #Flames

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Hate #Cancer #Cells

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Two #Tragedy

I know I can be very standoffish . . .
-- Dave Pelzer

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day,
-- Dave Pelzer

#Years #Hours

Something good comes out of every crisis.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Crisis

I am a very shy, introverted guy.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Guy #Shy #Introverted

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Guy #World #Eloquent

I buy thousands of books a year.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Book #Years

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Minutes #Plans

The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Laughter #Moving #Tears

I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weÂ’ve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Mistake #Believe #Ambition

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Choices #Decision #Moments

I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!
-- Dave Pelzer

#Want #Firsts #Forget

I had an attachment disorder.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Attachment #Disorder

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Believe #Challenges #Age

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Voice #Comedian #Lectures

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.
-- Dave Pelzer

#School #Care #Foster Care

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Schwarzenegger

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch
-- Dave Pelzer

#My Family #Brady Bunch #Bunch

David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Mother #Children #Sick

I told myself no matter what she did i would not let the b**** take me down
-- Dave Pelzer

#Matter

...and deliver me from evil." "Amen.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Evil #Amen

Your going to be fine.I promise you."- with my finger I made an X sign on my chest-"cross my heart and hope to die,you have my word.You don't deserve to live like that,and we're going to turn things around.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Heart #Promise #Crosses

I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Hurt #Love You #Caring

I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Beautiful #Ocean #Blow

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Humble #Winner #Humble Beginnings

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.
-- Dave Pelzer

#Children #People #Abuse