John Wooden
John Wooden

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden
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
John Wooden

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden
John Wooden

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

John Wooden
John Wooden

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden
John Wooden

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

John Wooden
John Wooden

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden
John Wooden

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.

John Wooden
John Wooden

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

John Wooden
John Wooden

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

John Wooden
John Wooden

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

John Wooden
John Wooden

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

John Wooden
John Wooden

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

John Wooden
John Wooden

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

John Wooden
John Wooden

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

John Wooden
John Wooden

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden
John Wooden

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

John Wooden
John Wooden

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

John Wooden
John Wooden

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

John Wooden
John Wooden

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.