54 Quotes By John Wooden


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.
John Wooden on art

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
John Wooden on beauty

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden on best

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.
John Wooden on best

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

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.
John Wooden on best

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
John Wooden on best

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
John Wooden on best

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden on change

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John Wooden on change

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden on courage

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
John Wooden on dad

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
John Wooden on dreams

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
John Wooden on experience

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden on failure

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden on failure

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.
John Wooden on faith

The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden on family

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.
John Wooden on friendship

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.
John Wooden on friendship