John Wooden Quotes: 18

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

• 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.

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

• Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.

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

• Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

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

• 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.

• Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

• 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.

• Don't mistake activity with achievement.

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

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

• Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

  Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

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

• Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.

• Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

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