John Wooden Quotes
303 John Wooden Quotes
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to stay there.
John Wooden
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not doing anything.
John Wooden
Don’t mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.
John Wooden
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden
When you’re through learning, you’re through.
When you are through learning, you are through.
John Wooden
The journey is better than the inn.
John Wooden
Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.
John Wooden
Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden
The best way to improve the team is to improve yourself.
John Wooden
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.
John Wooden
The force of character is cumulative.
John Wooden
Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
John Wooden
“Love” is the greatest word in the English language. “Balance” is the second-greatest word.
John Wooden
A leader has one team, not “starters” and “substitutes.”
John Wooden
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
John Wooden
If you have done your job in preparing the team, the team is prepared to do its job in playing the game. So let them.
John Wooden
Be quick, but don’t hurry.
John Wooden
No written word nor spoken plea can teach your team what it should be.
John Wooden
Perfection of relevant details is silly to some, but it’s not funny to me.
John Wooden
The infection of success is often fatal.
John Wooden
More often than we ever suspect, the lives of others we do affect.
John Wooden
Define “normal” as “abnormally high.”
John Wooden
Play to win, but play fair.
John Wooden
The will to win means nothing without the will to work.
John Wooden
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
John Wooden
Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
John Wooden
Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
John Wooden
Fear is short-term; pride lasts.
John Wooden
There is no such thing as an overachiever.
John Wooden
Do not be vulnerable to praise or criticism from outsiders.
John Wooden
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
I will get ready, and then, perhaps, my chance will come.
John Wooden
Be more interested in finding the best way, not in having it your way.
John Wooden
Make sure those under your supervision feel they are working with you, not for you.
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Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or long-lasting.
Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.
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Time spent getting even is best spent getting ahead.
Time spent getting even would be better spent trying to get ahead.
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There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
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Be slow to criticize. Be quick to commend.
Be slow to criticize and quick to commend.
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