More from John Wooden
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them.
John WoodenJohn Wooden If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John WoodenJohn Wooden We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.
John WoodenJohn Wooden A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
John WoodenJohn Wooden I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
John WoodenJohn Wooden The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
John WoodenJohn Wooden If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John WoodenJohn Wooden I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
John WoodenJohn Wooden 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
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on character
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
Jordan PetersonJordan Peterson Character is simply a habit long continued.
PlutarchPlutarch The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.
Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.
Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain What you have done to me shows your character how I loved you regardless shows mine.
TMCTMC Maybe we become what we write about.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette I’m more of a tough love type of person.
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