Quotes about Perseverance
It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.
- John Wooden
It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.
- John Wooden
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.
- John Wooden
To my way of thinking, when you give your 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.
- John Wooden
I had mistakes, plenty, but I had no failures
- John Wooden
If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.
- John Wooden
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
- John Wooden
Make the best of what you've got; play the cards you are dealt. Walt Disney once said, "There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.
- John Wooden
Condition Your Team to Love the Struggle.
- John Wooden
Remember That Success Can Take Months—or Years—to Achieve but Can Be Undone in Minutes.
- John Wooden
Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.
- John Wooden
Personal greatness is not determined by the size of the job, but by the size of the effort one puts into the job. This applies to everyone on the team.
- John Wooden