Quotes By Dave Pelzer

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

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

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

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

My mom obviously had a problem.

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

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

My message has always been about resilience.

I had an attachment disorder.

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.

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

I am a very shy, introverted guy.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

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.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

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

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

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

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.

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

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

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

I buy thousands of books a year.

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.

I plan my life in 15-minute sections.

My fans are buying the DNA of Dave.

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.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

Everybody makes mistakes.