Dave Pelzer Quotes

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

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• Something good comes out of every crisis.

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• My message has always been about resilience.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Birth:	29th December, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Speaker

About

David James "Dave" Pelzer was born in Daly City, California. He is an American author and motivational speaker. He is best known for his 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It". His second book, The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family was published shortly after in 1997. The third book in his series, A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness was about Pelzer's experiences as an adult and how he forgave his father. In 2001 he wrote Help Yourself: Finding Hope, Courage, And Happiness which was a self-help book. His first book "A Child Called It" was successful and garnered interest.

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