Top 89 Dan Pearce Quotes
#1. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
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#2. I made a big mistake, and I didn't use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn't make myself any better because of it.
And that's not okay with me.
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#3. When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now.
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#4. You have fun at the cool kids table. I prefer my spot over here with the real people.
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#5. 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.
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#6. If you don't want your past to own you, try owning your past.
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#7. My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions.
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#8. Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.
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#11. I will never grow thick skin so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.
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#12. You'd be hard-pressed to find an old person who would trade in a true friend for any amount of popularity or fame. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a young person who wouldn't.
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#13. 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?
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#14. 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.
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#15. I really believe that it is honesty about our imperfect selves that makes everyone do better and be better.
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#16. If there is one thing I know, it's that with every great achievement in our lives, there is an insecure idiot hiding around the corner waiting to take a baseball bat to it.
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#17. When my grandmother was sick in the hospital, I foolishly quoted her the saying, 'never regret growing old; it's a privileged denied to many.' She glared at me and responded, 'spoken like a truly young idiot.
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#18. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.
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#19. We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. *How* we do it is what defines us.
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#20. One of life's ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.
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#21. I am never going to be less sensitive so that you feel better about being judgmental toward me.
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#22. Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.
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#23. I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own.
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#24. If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again.
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#25. Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated.
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#26. Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.
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#27. Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.
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#28. It is all about the individual. And we can all become a better world if we become better, more loving individuals ourselves. There is no other way that will ever work better than love.
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#29. Crap talk; Noun. A condition where one's insecurities come spilling out of his mouth making him look like an unconfident idiot.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.
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#32. Just because you were born into something doesn't mean that it's right and it doesn't mean that it's true. The world's greatest men and women have always been those who questioned everything that ever was presented to them as truth.
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#33. Find a way to change your attitude for the better and your life will change for the better with little effort from you.
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#34. Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, I am the only common denominator here.
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#35. 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.
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#36. I'm not going to pretend I'm something I'm not so that you like me more.
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#37. It's time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It's time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It's time we give our kids a fighting chance.
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#38. People love to say, 'I love that person even though ... ' But let's be honest. Genuine love is never followed with the words 'even though.
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#39. Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won't one day be the end of me.
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#43. While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved everything you've been promised, someone else has been breaking all the rules and seeing all the success that comes from doing so.
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#44. Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.
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#45. As if on a conveyer belt, there will be a never ending supply of idiots and jerks that come and go in your life. Whether you stop the belt to dance with any one of them is up to you.
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#46. The only thing you don't have the power to change is your genetics. And someday even that won't be true.
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#47. Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out.
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#48. Only those willing to truly risk everything will gain everything. No person ever rose to greatness without the willingness to lose it all.
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#49. So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
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#53. One negative voice aimed at me has the incredible power to drown out a thousand positive ones. One of the greatest things I can achieve is to never let it.
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#54. What haunts me far more than anything I've ever done are the things I haven't done.
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#55. The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, 'I know, and isn't it fabulous?!
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#56. I'm not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your brain happening right now. And if that's happening now, what's actually happening right now isn't really happening for you at all. This is what it is meant when people say, live in the present.
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#59. I think if I were to sit down in a bid for power, I would ask myself what I should control if I want to control the people. The answer would be sex. Money. And definitive knowledge of the afterlife. Then I'd make fantastically pleasant rules surrounding every one of them.
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#60. Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child's entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?
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#61. At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.
I am finally conceding the truth to me.
I am something other than straight.
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#62. Please do not tell me that you speak to God on my behalf. If a god exists, I am a good enough man to deserve the message myself.
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#63. I have learned that trying to control other people's opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness.
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#64. The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.
The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.
And the more I made myself look good to the masses, the less attractive I felt like I was.
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#65. Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.
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#66. Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.
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#67. Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody's is. Embrace that you have things you can't control. We all have a list of them.
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#68. Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.
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#69. Explain to me how you having a problem with me is my problem ...
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#70. Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them ... they can be the greatest moments of our lives.
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#71. People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
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#72. 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.
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#73. When one says, I won't judge you for that, what they're really saying is, I am judging you for that. Think about it. If you walk into my house and I tell you, "I won't judge you for wearing those pants," what am I really saying?
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#74. You want to be popular? It's easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.
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#75. If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.
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#76. Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.
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#77. Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature.
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#78. If you want to change the world, first change yourself, then tell others how you did it. Never demand that people change. Inspire them to change using your own change as an example instead.
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#79. Don't be offended when people tell you you're crazy. Use it as an excuse to do whatever you want!
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#80. The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.
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#81. As much as I don't want it to be true, the reasons I don't do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.
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#82. Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.
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#83. Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.
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#84. I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.
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#85. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.
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#86. Saturday mornings, I've learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.
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#87. Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.
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#88. Confidence; Noun. A condition where one knows what he is good at no matter how much you try to convince him otherwise.
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#89. Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness.
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