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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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
I'm going to take a bath.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Gort ! Klaatu barada nikto !
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 first things first, and second things not at all.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
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 but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
They alone live, who live for others.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Love is friendship set on fire.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
The ready back gets all the loads.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Keep away from small 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 only real valuable thing is intuition.
Love is a many splendered thing.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
If it matters to you, you will find a way. If it doesn't you will find an excuse
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Every dog has his day.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.