Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
JOHN WOODENNever make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.
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Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
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Earn the right to be proud and confident.
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
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I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
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If I am through learning, I am through.
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Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
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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.
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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I’m not afraid to die.
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Ability is a poor man’s wealth.
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Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
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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.
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Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
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The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
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It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
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You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored.
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