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Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden 
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative
of the dignity of my high vocation,
and its many responsibilities.
Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way
to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
- Mother Teresa
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
INTENT:
We hold the power to make things happen
through our intent -
to the extent that we use our intention
with compassion and without ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Every decision you make - every decision -
is not a decision about what to do.
It's a decision about Who You Are.
When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes.
You begin to see life in a new way.
All events, occurrences, and situations
turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.
- Neale Donald Walsch
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Make your important choices in life
based on your values and your long-term objectives
rather than on a need for approval.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.
What you make a habit of putting-off
just keeps getting pushed away again and again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are choirs singing in your head.
If you listen, you will hear the music.
It is the song of angels.
Pay no attention to the sounds of the world.
They are just noises, and even when
added up all together
they have no value, make no sense.
Strain to hear the song of angels.
Listen to the melody within your soul.
- Neale Donald Walsch
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Make Free-Will Choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
...
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
- attributed to St. Francis of Assisi
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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