Top 90 Cesar Millan Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I believe it’s our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it’s also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.”

— Cesar Millan

52. “The dog can only become what’s in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.”

— Cesar Millan

53. “We’re already saying it’s not the dog, but you need to adopt this lifestyle which is exercise, discipline, and affection.”

— Cesar Millan

54. “Dog parks can be a fantastic way to socialize your dog, but it’s important for owners to understand that a dog park isn’t exercise and isn’t a substitute for walk. A visit to the dog park is fun – play time.”

— Cesar Millan

55. “Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.”

— Cesar Millan

56. “It’s not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.”

— Cesar Millan

57. “You can also hurt a dog if it’s insecure, if a dog is nervous and then you try to pet him, you can make him more nervous. It’s not just the aggressive dogs that you can get hurt. It’s also the dogs that you can actually hurt. It works both ways.”

— Cesar Millan

58. “I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you’re a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.”

— Cesar Millan

59. “Dogs help you to appreciate the world around you. They smell the ground so intensely. They look at the trees as though they are seeing them for the first time. It helps us to remember the wonders that we take for granted.”

— Cesar Millan

60. “On walks, make sure that your dog is not in front of you, pulling you down the street. Instead, keep your dog to your side or behind you. This will also demonstrate to your dog that you are the alpha figure.”

— Cesar Millan

61. “I wish my kid would act like my dog sometimes. My dog listens to me and does what I tell him to do.”

— Cesar Millan

62. “I’m naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.”

— Cesar Millan

63. “Always walk out the door ahead of your dog when leaving the house. This will show your dog who is in the leadership role.”

— Cesar Millan

64. “The reality is, if you have a high-level-energy dog, it’s not going to be happy with a one-hour walk. Those types of dogs are going to require more than one hour of physical challenge in the outside world.”

— Cesar Millan

65. “I have never met a dog I couldn’t help; however, I have met humans who weren’t willing to change.”

— Cesar Millan

66. “Give your dog something to do before you share food, water, toys or affection. This way the dog earns his treat. For example, have him or her perform the “sit” or “down” command.”

— Cesar Millan

67. “I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs – especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I’ve dedicated my life to this.”

— Cesar Millan

68. “And we, as human beings, are capable of creating positive changes in our lives through intent.”14.”

— Cesar Millan

69. “If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.”

— Cesar Millan

70. “Aggression is not a breed thing. Its a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.”

— Cesar Millan

71. “Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it’s up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.”

— Cesar Millan

72. “Dog’s owners don’t call me. It’s their neighbors or family members. We call them the whistleblowers, but it’s more like the pack. It’s making sure that one pack member gets in line. Before it was the owners, now it’s the community.”

— Cesar Millan

73. “When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn’t speak any English.”

— Cesar Millan

74. “It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.”

— Cesar Millan

75. “Huskies get in trouble. Huskies are well-known to be escape artists. Why? Because they were bred to go long-distance. They’re not bred to be in the backyard and just look beautiful because they have blue eyes.”

— Cesar Millan

76. “Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.”

— Cesar Millan

77. “But just because a person goes to Harvard doesn’t mean he’s balanced when he graduates, and just because a dog knows how to obey doesn’t mean he’s balanced, either.”

— Cesar Millan

78. “Any time you’re working in the world of taming animals, you’re going to get hurt. But it’s a rush that we get.”

— Cesar Millan

79. “When I go and work with people, I never say, ‘Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.’ It’s like a diet. You’ve got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.”

— Cesar Millan

80. “A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that’s the closest species we have.”

— Cesar Millan

81. “America focuses on being very intelligent because that’s how you make more money.”

— Cesar Millan

82. “I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.”

— Cesar Millan

83. “When you have a certain fitness projection, it’s going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I’m working with dogs who can kill me.”

— Cesar Millan

84. “Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let’s do it.”

— Cesar Millan

85. “In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It’s an unnatural point of view.”

— Cesar Millan

86. “After choosing Mr. Green, I asked Brooke if she could find me a towel or cloth that carried the scent of his canine family of origin, to help ease his transition from his first pack into my pack. Brooke did much more than that.”

— Cesar Millan

87. “Nature’s laws are the invisible government of the earth. – Alfred Montapert.”

— Cesar Millan

88. “When humans adopt dogs and bring them into our lives and homes, most of the time we have the dogs best interests at heart. We try to give them what it is we think they need. The problem is that we are making assumptions based not on what canines need but on what humans need. By humanizing dogs, we damage them psychologically.”

— Cesar Millan

89. “Remember, dogs sense when we are happy, and especially when we are happy with them.”

— Cesar Millan

90. “What we’re doing is projecting excited, emotional energy, which is the furthest from calm-assertive energy that we can get. To a dog, emotional energy is weak and often negative energy. So from the get-go, we’re telling the dog that we don’t exactly have it all together.”

— Cesar Millan

91. “In choosing a dog to share your life, you have an incredible opportunity to form a powerful bond with a member of another species.”

— Cesar Millan