John Wooden Quotes about Effort

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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.

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.

John Wooden

Effort, Imperfect, Fear Of Failure

Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

John Wooden

Effort, Care, Take Care

John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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.

John Wooden

Perseverance, Giving, 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.

John Wooden

Focus, Effort, Mountain

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

Mistake, Heart, Effort

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.

John Wooden

Team, Effort, Understanding

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.

John Wooden

Effort, May, Made

John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

John Wooden

Art, Goal, Effort

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

John Wooden

Achievement, Effort, Important

John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

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.

John Wooden

Giving, Goal, Effort

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

John Wooden

Effort, Fear Of Failure, Permit

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.

John Wooden

Giving, Effort, Loser

John Wooden (2005). “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organizaion”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional