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Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
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Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- 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
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
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If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Almost nothing you worry about today
will matter in a hundred years.
Think carefully about what you can focus on today.
Choose tasks that will actually make a positive difference
to your great-grandchildren.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Indifferent to whether your mood is grumpy or cheerful,
Nature always sings her passionate song of joyful celebration.
You can never stop the happy song of life,
so join the celebration -
sing along, dance, make love,
smile your biggest smile, and cheer on God's music.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't aim at success.
The more you aim at it and make it a target,
the more you are going to miss it.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as
the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication
to a cause greater than oneself.
- Viktor E. Frankl
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
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