Quotes about Dedication
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
- John Updike
Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time.
- John Updike
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.
- 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
The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 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
never dreamed about winning a national championship. It happened before I even thought it was possible. What I was dreaming about each year, if you want to call it that, was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be.
- John Wooden
You must define success as making the complete effort to maximize your ability, skills, and potential in whatever circumstances—good or bad—may exist.
- John Wooden
Condition Your Team to Love the Struggle.
- John Wooden
SEEK THOSE WITH A FIRE-IN-THE-BELLY ENTHUSIASM FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
- 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
Each day my mother demonstrated great patience and the ability and eagerness to work very hard without complaint
- John Wooden