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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The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
There's no crying in baseball !
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Nobody puts baby in a corner.
Happiness is a choice.
Reach for the stars.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Life is "trying things to see if they work"
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
You create your reality.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
To know me is to love me.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples.
You know the difference between you and me ? I make this look good.
We belong dead.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Our intentions create our reality.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I make wine at home. I make it out of raisins so that it will be aged automatically.
After your jump, the net appears.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I know that I will die laughing.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.