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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
Related topics: Motivational Success
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
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.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
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.
- Vince Lombardi
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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