Quotes about Mindset
Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it.
- John Perkins
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.
- John Wooden
Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.
- John Wooden
During the toughest challenges in my life I've come to most appreciate all Coach Wooden means to me. The things he would say—"Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't whine, don't complain, don't make excuses; worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can't"—were endless. Yet there is an appropriate one for every situation. The real
- John Wooden
I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be. It
- John Wooden
Have something to believe in; have a reason to believe in it, but stay open-minded.
- John Wooden
don't worry about whether you're better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become. You have control over that; the other you don't.
- John Wooden
John Wooden focused almost entirely on improvement in the present moment. He let the score—winning—take care of itself. Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
- John Wooden
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
- John Wooden
Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
- John Wooden
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out
- John Wooden
If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.
- John Wooden