John Wooden
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I don't like your manners.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Somebody stop me !
Live life with passion.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Open the pod bay doors,
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
You become what you think about.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Life without love is like a tree. Without blossom and fruit.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Every truth has four corners, as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Stella ! Hey, Stella !
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
We're on a mission from God.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Love is a symbol of eternity that wipes away all sense of time, removing all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
Find the good -- and praise it.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
If you would create something, you must be something.
There are no gains without pains.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Love is perfect kindness
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Experience is the best teacher.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
The book you don't read cant help.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?