We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt
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The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.
John Wooden
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and little experience than a lot of experience and little talent.
John Wooden
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I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential.
John Wooden
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Define success for those under your leadership as total commitment and effort to the team's welfare. Then show it yourself with your own effort and performance. Most of those you lead will do the same. Those who don't should be encouraged to look for a new team.
John Wooden
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Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.
John Wooden
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A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.
John Wooden
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When you punish your people for making a mistake or falling short of a goal, you create an environment of extreme caution, even fearfulness. In sports it's similar to playing "not to lose" - a formula that often brings on defeat.
John Wooden
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Confidence must be monitored so that it does not spoil or rot and turn to arrogance.
John Wooden
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A person who values winning above anything will do anything to win. And such people are threats to their organizations.
John Wooden
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You must truly care about the lives and welfare of your team members, and demonstrate it with concern and support within a disciplined environment.
John Wooden
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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
Joan Rivers
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
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Comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, then a master. And then it becomes a tamer, and with a hook and whip it makes puppets of your larger desires.
Kahlil Gibran
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I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers.
John Wooden
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Peaks and valleys belong in the Alps, not in the temperament - the emotions - of a leader.
John Wooden
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An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.
John Wooden
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A man's wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he buildeth, the golden stream that continually floweth into his purse and keepeth it always bulging.
George Clason
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink
James Russell Lowell
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George Patton
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett
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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
Joseph Rickaby
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Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.
John Mitchell Mason
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Learn to love your work and you'll never have to 'work' again.
Truett Cathy
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You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.
Truett Cathy
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Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust.
Truett Cathy
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Courtesy is cheap to provide, and it pays great dividends.
Truett Cathy
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The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.
Grover Cleveland
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What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
Thomas Huxley
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.
Milton Friedman
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Ogden Nash
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People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
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One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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All who would win joy must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
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It is neither wealth, nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Let him who would be happy for a day go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
Thomas Fuller
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To be happy you must forget yourself. Learn benevolence; it is the only cure of a morbid temper.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Palmer
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A woman who has never seen her husband fishing doesn't know what a patient man she has married.
Edgar Watson Howe
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin Franklin
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Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now!
Oren Arnold
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