Dan Pearce Quotes

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

~ Dan Pearce

People usually live up to their expectations. The kid picked first for dodgeball feels a duty to be the best, and to perform the best, and to be better than anyone else. They feel a need to execute. And, the only way they are going to achieve that is to make their body run faster, jump higher, and move quicker.If more fat kids were chosen first for activities and sports and group/team dynamics, they would automatically start to change their lives to fit into the expectations that surround those moments. Any time a child is picked last, they know it’s because people expect the least of them, and so they never actually have a need to rise above that.

~ Dan Pearce

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

~ Dan Pearce

Find a way to change your attitude for the better and your life will change for the better with little effort from you.

~ Dan Pearce

I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.

~ Dan Pearce

Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, I am the only common denominator here.

~ Dan Pearce

My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was the first one to tell me that I could do it. I am 30 years old, and I still find great power in my own dad telling me it’s possible.I still find great power in my own dad telling me I can do it.

~ Dan Pearce

My entire life, I’ve never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.

~ Dan Pearce

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.

~ Dan Pearce

Every person is attractive to somebody. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Every person is probably ugly to somebody, too. You are. I am. Jim Bob over there is, too. Don’t take it personally.And, we all need to do ourselves a favor. We need to believe people when they tell us we’re beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or hunkalicious, especially when that someone is somebody that we think is beautiful, handsome, sexy, attractive, hot, or babealicious.Because you know what? They probably really think so. They probably aren’t lying. They probably don’t give a damn that you don’t look like Pamela Anderson.

~ Dan Pearce

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

~ Dan Pearce

Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.

~ Dan Pearce

Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.

~ Dan Pearce

Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live.

~ Dan Pearce

Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.

~ Dan Pearce

One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

~ Dan Pearce

It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.

~ Dan Pearce

Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.

~ Dan Pearce

I'm not saying you are jealous or insecure. I'm just saying that you obsessing over another person's accomplishments makes you look that way.

~ Dan Pearce

The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?

~ Dan Pearce

What would it hurt for me to give that homeless guy a couple bucks? Who the hell cares if he spends it on beer? Maybe beer is a step up for him from the harder stuff that knocked him onto the streets in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, he’s actually going to spend it on food (homeless people do eat, right?). Maybe, he really is a desperate human being who is trying to change his situation.

~ Dan Pearce

There are too many people who love me, and accept me, and never try and change me, and who don’t condemn me in the slightest, for me to waste even one moment of my life anymore worrying about what other people will think.

~ Dan Pearce

When I date women now, I have learned to simply not care what they think about it. I’m the same person I always have been. Faithful. Dependable. Kind. Sweet. Funny. Awesome. And if they want to discount me because of something as insignificant and irrelevant as me experiencing attraction to men as well, then they don’t get me in their lives. They don’t deserve me.

~ Dan Pearce

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

~ Dan Pearce

So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the masses. Do it by speaking to individuals. If what you have is truly amazing and unique and worth sharing, individuals will share it. It is always about the individual, no matter how big you get. Remember that.

~ Dan Pearce

Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.

~ Dan Pearce

I have learned that trying to control other people’s opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.

~ Dan Pearce

Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

~ Dan Pearce

I do not see the point in dressing and acting and speaking in a way that makes you feel more comfortable and me feel less comfortable.

~ Dan Pearce

Think about the word mould for a moment. A mould is a device into which one crams and smashes something until it becomes the shape that they desire. Don't spend your life letting other people destroy you while they try and force you into their moulds.

~ Dan Pearce

Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.

~ Dan Pearce

What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.

~ Dan Pearce