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Doing Quotes by John Wooden
- Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
- The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it
- For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If…
- Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another.
- Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.
- The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
- 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…
- We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we…
- Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice…
- IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything....
- If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for…
- Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
- I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of…
- Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
More Doing Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well… — Neil Armstrong
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov