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Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
I am a being of free-will,
and I CHOOSE each and every action I make,
every thought I think, and every emotion I feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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