Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

Be quick, but don't hurry.

John Wooden

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

John Wooden

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden

Be prepared and be honest.

John Wooden

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

John Wooden

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

John Wooden

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

John Wooden

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

John Wooden

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet- Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

John Ruskin

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

Charlie Trotter

The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.

Jennifer Grey

The idea that I can touch anybody's life in any way is perfect.

William Story

Ah! how ugly Life can beAfter Love from it is lopped!

William Story

Ah! how ugly Life can be After Love from it is lopped!

Dan Castellaneta

Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?

You want your life back so bad. I spent months trying to get my life back. But that was the wrong goal.

You want to talk about the worst week of your life? I was only 26 years old, and I was waiting to see if I had cancer.

Henry Drummond

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Joan Van Ark

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Abraham Lincoln

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

William Hazlitt

All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it

Deborah Moggach

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Alfred Adler

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.

The majority of the people want the quality of life protected.

Claire Danes

The life of my persona has nothing to do with me,

Analeigh Tipton

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

Frederick Douglass

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous

James Gray

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

The life I've lived, ... you don't see people that just pour out and give to you.

John Shimkus

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.