The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
William Burnham
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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell
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Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear.
Norman Vincent Peale
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A man may make mistakes, but he isn't a failure until he starts blaming someone else.
John Wooden
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
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The bottom line - no matter where you come from or your economic background - is to associate yourself with people interested in making your life better.
Grant Hill
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I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
John Wooden
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There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.
William Halsey
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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
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We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arnold Bennett
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
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It's amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
John Wooden
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If you go out with one focus in mind, to contribute to the team's success, individual accolades will take care of themselves.
Michael Jordan
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You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
Jerry West
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You're not always going to be successful, but if you're afraid to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.
Charles Barkley
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There will be nights when your shots won't fall, but you can play good defense every night.
Red Auerbach
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Russell's first law: you must make the other player do what you want him to do.
Bill Russell
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I stress offense without the ball and defense before the other player gets the ball.
John Wooden
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Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.
Claire Bee
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The only lasting form of discipline is self-imposed discipline.
Dale Brown
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
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Some criticism will be honest, some won't. Some praise you will deserve, some you won't. You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
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Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him.
Bill Russell
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A right, such as a right to free speech, imposes no obligation on another, except that of non-interference. The so-called right to health care, food or housing, whether a person can afford it or not, is something entirely different; it does impose an obligation on another. If one person has a right to something he didn't produce, simultaneously and of necessity it means that some other person does not have right to something he did produce. That's because, since there's no Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, in order for government to give one American a dollar, it must, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American.
Walter E. Williams
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There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Walter E. Williams
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If you do anything in any way, whenever or wherever, that I think is detrimental to the good of this basketball team, to the school, or to yourself, I'll handle it as I see fit.
Bobby Knight
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A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Bobby Knight
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We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
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A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against.
Bobby Knight
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It's always to your advantage if the other guys are worried more about what you're doing than what they want to do.
Bobby Knight
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry Kaiser
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Froude
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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer
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From a coaching standpoint, the greatest fear I've ever had - and it doesn't take a Final Four to bring it out - is that in some way I might not have prepared my team as well as I could have.
Bobby Knight
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To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.
Bobby Knight
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Players who know how to play have to be able to come to you with a suggestion.
Bobby Knight
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I've always had an ass-to-the-brain theory - when a player's ass gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, "Get me off of here."
Bobby Knight
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I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Bobby Knight
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The eight greatest words ever put together in the English language: America, America, God shed His grace on thee...
Bobby Knight
A part of that grace is a responsibility I believe each of us has: to make sure we provide those who follow us with the same opportunities you and I were given by those who preceded us. That's uppermost among all that I've tried to do as a coach - I and thousands of other coaches and teachers that kids across this country have been fortunate enough to have at some point in their lives.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
William Somerset Maugham
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious.
Oswald Spengler
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn
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The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie
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Investing is putting out money to be sure of getting more money back later at an appropriate rate.
Warren Buffett
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The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
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Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
Lou Holtz
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
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I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
Kin Hubbard
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
Billy Graham
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
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Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.
Francis Quarles
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
Oprah Winfrey
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People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wilcox
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No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself.
Conrado Generoso
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are only four ways to create value (in a digital economy): information, entertainment, convenience, and savings.
Jay Walker
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Aristotle
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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
Alexander Fraser Tyler
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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Theodore Roosevelt
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet
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One of the best rules in conversation is never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Jonathan Swift
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.
John Stossel
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Ask yourself the easy questions and you’ll have a hard life. Ask yourself the hard questions and you’ll have an easier life.
Peter Thomson
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Patrick Henry
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
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The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
Florence Shinn
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The 8 key words that will move practically anyone to your side of the issue: 'If you can't do it, I'll definitely understand.'
Bob Burg
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Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
Brian Tracy
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
Brian Tracy
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There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
Lee Iacocca
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Sir Winston Churchill
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles du Bois
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don´t have to have a college degree to serve. You don´t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Thomas Paine
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Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
Thomas Paine
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I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say "I am an American."
Gouverneur Morris
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
George Washington
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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