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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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- 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
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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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- 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
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- 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
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
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
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."
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
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
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
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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 is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
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
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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