Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
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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
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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- 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
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- 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
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- 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
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
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
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
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
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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