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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
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
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- 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
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- 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
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
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- 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
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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."
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- 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
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
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
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
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 secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
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 getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
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
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
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
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 key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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