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Success comes from knowing that
by John Wooden

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

Quotes by John Wooden

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden

Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden

Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- 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

Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- 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

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- 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

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

Success Quotes and Sayings

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."

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 secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

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

The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

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

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

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 secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

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

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

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

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra

When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

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

The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

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

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

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

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie