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Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Related topics: Motivational
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- 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
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- 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
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
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door
of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
Life is a constant opponent,
and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly.
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life -
a parry here, a feint there - always engaged,
but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
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