John Wooden Quotes About Motivational
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What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'
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Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.
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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Time lost is time lost. It’s gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best.
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
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Be quick, but don't hurry.
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We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.
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I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.
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Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
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We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.
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Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.
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Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.
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The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
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Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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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.
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Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.
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Listen if you want to be heard
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I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
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You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.
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It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
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Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.
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The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
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