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Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
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Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- 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
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- 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
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- 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
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
Go ahead, make my day.
- the movie Sudden Impact (1983)
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
- John Lennon
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference!
- Albert Einstein
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
- Abraham Lincoln
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The fastest way to destroy love
is to make a goal out of it,
because people who are trying to be loved
come from a place that they're not loved.
- Werner Erhard
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of your regrets;
never smother your sorrow,
but tend and cherish it till it comes to have
a separate and integral interest.
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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