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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 
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- 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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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- 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
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
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
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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
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
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.
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The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
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Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Don't make assumptions.
- don Miguel Ruiz
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Begin to define for ourselves
what it is to make a healthy choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Pain is what the world inflicts upon us.
Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail
to make the difficult conscious choice to choose Joy.
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Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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
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
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
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Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
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