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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Collection: Best
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Collection: Brainy
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The most important thing in the world is family and love.
- John Wooden
Collection: Fathers
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Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
- John Wooden
Collection: Dreams
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
- John Wooden
Collection: Faith
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I'm not afraid to die.
- John Wooden
Collection: Death
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There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
- John Wooden
Collection: Trust
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Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
- John Wooden
Collection: Marriage
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
- John Wooden
Collection: Good
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
- John Wooden
Collection: Experience
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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
- John Wooden
Collection: Peace
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Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.
- John Wooden
Collection: Inspirational
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden
Collection: Wisdom
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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
- John Wooden
Collection: Great
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
- John Wooden
Collection: Time
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Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
- John Wooden
Collection: Life
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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
- John Wooden
Collection: Wisdom
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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
- John Wooden
Collection: Wisdom
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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
- John Wooden
Collection: Future
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I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
- John Wooden
Collection: Business
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I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
- John Wooden
Collection: Patience
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I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.
- John Wooden
Collection: Amazing
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Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
- John Wooden
Collection: Learning
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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
- John Wooden
Collection: Wisdom
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Collection: Peace
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All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
- John Wooden
Collection: Life
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Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
- John Wooden
Collection: Art
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Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.
- John Wooden
Collection: Best
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- John Wooden
Collection: Change
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
- John Wooden
Collection: Success
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I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
- John Wooden
Collection: Dad
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
- John Wooden
Collection: Failure
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
- John Wooden
Collection: Change
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Collection: Learning
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- John Wooden
Collection: Best
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Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
- John Wooden
Collection: Best
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Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
- John Wooden
Collection: Love
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I'm glad I was a teacher.
- John Wooden
Collection: Teacher
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- John Wooden
Collection: Positive
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If I am through learning, I am through.
- John Wooden
Collection: Learning
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Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
- John Wooden
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I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
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You can do more good by being good than any other way.
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Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
- John Wooden
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I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
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Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
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I don't believe in fate.
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I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
- John Wooden

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