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A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
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You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Do not 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
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- 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
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free
and realizing you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort
when all we really need to be happy
is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
When someone has a strong intuitive connection,
Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma,
some past connection.
- Richard Gere
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
We cannot solve a problem by saying,
"It's not my problem."
We cannot solve a problem by hoping that
someone else will solve it for us.
I can solve a problem only when I say,
"This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it.
- M. Scott Peck
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
What does it profit, my brethren,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
- James 2:14
It's so easy to fall in love
but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
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