John Wooden - Don't measure yourself by what you have...

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Biography

Author Profession: Coach

Nationality: American

Born: October 14, 1910

Died: June 4, 2010

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Vince Lombardi, Lou Holtz, Tommy Lasorda, Bobby Knight, Nick Saban, Pat Riley, Mike Ditka, Bill Parcells

Topics

Ability, Accomplished, Measure, Should, You, Your, Yourself

Quotes to Explore

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. - St. Jerome

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Motivational Good Best Better

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You Long Will Enough

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

You Enough Well Understand

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

Education Alone Failure World

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You Without Being Disagree

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

Time Man Women World

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

Truth World Lie Chance

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

New Mistake Never Person

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. - Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

People Government Earth Shall

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

Wisdom Change Wind Pessimist

Top 10
John Wooden
Quotes

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

Wise Man Fool Wise Man

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

Motivational You Fail Prepare

I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!

Gun Son Riding Flying

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. - Golda Meir

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Past Try Must Cannot

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