John Wooden

• Ability is a poor man's wealth.
• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece
• 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.
• Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
• Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
• Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
• Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
• Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
• If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
• If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything.
• It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
• Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
• Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.
• Make each day your masterpiece.
• Never mistake activity for achievement.
• Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
• Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
• Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
• Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
• You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.