All JOHN WOODEN Quotes about “Effort”

“Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.”
“Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort”
“Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.”
“Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.”
“The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.”
“You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.”
“You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.”
“You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.”
“We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.”
“The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.”
“Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.”
“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.”
“Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance.”
“Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
“When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.”
“Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.”
“How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.”

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