John Wooden on ability
John Wooden71 quotes“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
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The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
John WoodenJohn Wooden What is right is more important than who is right.
John WoodenJohn Wooden I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
John WoodenJohn Wooden It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John WoodenJohn Wooden It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
John WoodenJohn Wooden The best competition I have is against myself to become better.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.
John WoodenJohn Wooden I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John WoodenJohn Wooden I’m not afraid to die.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Earn the right to be proud and confident.
John WoodenJohn Wooden
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.
Kapil DevKapil Dev The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
Eric HofferEric Hoffer The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed – to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.
RajneeshRajneesh We could be history in the making.
Julia MichaelsJulia Michaels Your ability to think is unlimited, and so the things you can think into existence are unlimited.
Rhonda ByrneRhonda Byrne I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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