Top 100 Wooden Quotes

#1. Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #900
#2. Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #1995
#3. You haven't taught until they've learned.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #3581
#4. Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #4698
#5. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.

David Mitchell

Wooden Quotes #6149
#6. 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

Wooden Quotes #9568
#7. Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #13327
#8. What is the name of your dream? A lovely wooden cottage in the middle of a forest? Or walking in an endless autumn path? What is the name of your dream? Don't give a name, always give a list! Fill yourself with dreams because dream is the path to reality!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wooden Quotes #13918
#9. Someone was always leaving
and never coming back.
The wooden houses wait like old wives
along this road; they are everywhere,
abandoned, leaning, turning gray.

Lisel Mueller

Wooden Quotes #14275
#10. At the entrance of this street, a Janissary was pinned to a wooden door by an eight-foot-long spear, which Jack looked on as proving that Yevgeny had passed by there recently.

Neal Stephenson

Wooden Quotes #15770
#11. A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #18836
#12. If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #22069
#13. I leaned my head on the back of the wooden chair and looked over at his handsome profile, all alight in the glow of the fire. For a second he looked like a God, maybe of the Sun, all golden and beautiful, his own magnificence outdoing that of the dancing flames.

Mia Sheridan

Wooden Quotes #31024
#14. Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #35708
#15. There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #37838
#16. Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on his elbows and watched his father-god brighten the bare wooden planks of her widow's walk.

Josephine Angelini

Wooden Quotes #38792
#17. Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #39485
#18. There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #39668
#19. You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #39775
#20. They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

Laurence J. Peter

Wooden Quotes #39869
#21. the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear,

Arthur Conan Doyle

Wooden Quotes #44682
#22. Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #46089
#23. I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #47275
#24. One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.

Brooke Warra

Wooden Quotes #49396
#25. He was, however, obliged to leave the university, because Nathaniel's story had created a sensation, and it was universally considered a quite unpardonable trick to smuggle a wooden doll into respectful tea parties in place of a living person.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

Wooden Quotes #56641
#26. I never yelled at my players much. That would have been artificial stimulation, which doesn't last very long. I think it's like love and passion. Passion won't last as long as love. When you are dependent on passion, you need more and more of it to make it work. It's the same with yelling.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #56691
#27. Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #57070
#28. Jerusalem, 61 AD Mariamne dipped her reed pen into the shallow wooden bowl of charcoal and olive oil ink and began writing her last entry on the parchment page in front of her.

Jerry Harber

Wooden Quotes #59316
#29. He said 'That! Put that in your purse! I don't like that!' when I took off my brassiere. It remained there, though, curled up on his wooden floor, curled awkwardly for a piece of clothing, not awkwardly if it had been something else perhaps, a creature.

"Idea

Diane Williams

Wooden Quotes #60800
#30. The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #61298
#31. One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Oliver Goldsmith

Wooden Quotes #63686
#32. The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today. -

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #65839
#33. Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL

Jonathan Safran Foer

Wooden Quotes #66446
#34. Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #67744
#35. While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #69197
#36. What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #78513
#37. The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #79612
#38. Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #79620
#39. We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #79769
#40. Be at your best when your best is needed.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #82489
#41. Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #86322
#42. When there was nothing left inside, he laid his head down on the carpet and stared at the wooden railing. He was even emptier than before. How was it possible that hollowness could dig so deep?

Jeyn Roberts

Wooden Quotes #87004
#43. Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend.

Stephen Mangan

Wooden Quotes #87041
#44. I thought of how she'd been at three, at six, at nine. No one warns you about the losses. No one tells you you'll miss them, those earlier children. They disappear, but are they still there, sealed one inside the next like those little wooden Russian dolls?

Ann Harleman

Wooden Quotes #87563
#45. I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #88074
#46. The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.

Nancy B. Brewer

Wooden Quotes #88887
#47. You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #93291
#48. Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #95375
#49. By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

Luke Harding

Wooden Quotes #96835
#50. The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #97094
#51. Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires, five of them lined up like beads on an abacus.

Dan Chaon

Wooden Quotes #101693
#52. Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #102185
#53. Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #107510
#54. It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.

Sam Worthington

Wooden Quotes #113932
#55. If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #116041
#56. first ever military cryptographic device, the Spartan scytale, dating back to the fifth century B.C. The scytale is a wooden staff around which a strip of leather or parchment is wound,

Simon Singh

Wooden Quotes #117757
#57. If you get too engrossed and involved and concerned in regard to things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you have control.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #122791
#58. Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Roald Dahl

Wooden Quotes #123684
#59. Where we goin'? Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses.
For all I know my grandmother could be planning to shoot us and bury us with the rest of the family, but I don't think it would help to share this notion with Wade

Carolee Dean

Wooden Quotes #123916
#60. I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #128289
#61. Big things are accomplished when we master the little things.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #129457
#62. I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #132605
#63. Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #133983
#64. She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.

Glendon Swarthout

Wooden Quotes #135103
#65. Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #138774
#66. Decisions are more apt to be accepted when you've listened to suggestions first. I wanted them to see the reason behind what I asked of them, not to do things just because I said so.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #138849
#67. Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles. The reason they radiated light was because fairies had flown up to them to waltz and glow on the tiny dance floors.

Audrey Greathouse

Wooden Quotes #140219
#68. Coach Wooden didn't treat everybody the same; he treated people the way they deserved to be treated.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #142244
#69. I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #142315
#70. At the wedding, women served a dish of cabbage that had been shredded by wooden kraut cutters, mixed with ground pork and onion, wrapped in bread dough, and baked.

Timothy Egan

Wooden Quotes #143767
#71. Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #146757
#72. The others are all common mouths chattering, empty heads like wooden whistles blowing common tunes.

Jane Yolen

Wooden Quotes #147599
#73. The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden islands of freedom, free from petty concerns and the laws of the land.

Louis Nowra

Wooden Quotes #147633
#74. We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon ... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

C.S. Lewis

Wooden Quotes #153456
#75. Now comes the reign of iron - and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

Wooden Quotes #154545
#76. Remember, results aren't the criteria for success - it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #154842
#77. Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #155133
#78. The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Augusten Burroughs

Wooden Quotes #155265
#79. I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights, the musicians accompanying us - and the feeling of ritual the classes had.

Suzanne Vega

Wooden Quotes #158076
#80. She sat down on a wooden bench that was bolted to the floor ... in case some high school hooligan like herself decided to make off with it, she supposed.

Kimberly Derting

Wooden Quotes #160229
#81. The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.

Jack Gilbert

Wooden Quotes #162709
#82. It's been an unbelievable thing for me to walk Bruin Walk and walk past Coach Wooden's statue, a guy that when I was in elementary school, it's Coach Wooden winning his final championship, his 10th in 12 years.

Steve Alford

Wooden Quotes #163909
#83. It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.

Caroline Cairn

Wooden Quotes #164633
#84. Make today your master piece.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #167658
#85. Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.

Isabella Bird

Wooden Quotes #167998
#86. Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #168023
#87. He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had "a plan," and if I "stuck to the plan"
Of course, when you're that young, you nest in your parents' plans, not your own.

Mitch Albom

Wooden Quotes #171738
#88. When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could get used to Boo, who lived with them and creeped her out by making little wooden dolls of her and putting them in the hollow tree out front.

Silas House

Wooden Quotes #177319
#89. In a sooty kettle. In one corner, orange-colored sodas were stacked in wooden crates. I had never been in such a wretched hovel.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Wooden Quotes #178373
#90. How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #178508
#91. It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #180549
#92. Dracula, who said while they drove a wooden stake into his heart, Boy, I sure hope this is heartburn. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Wooden Quotes #181581
#93. Do your best every day. Live each day as if it's your masterpiece.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #183001
#94. You have to work hard, and you have to enjoy what you're doing. If you don't enjoy it, no matter how hard you seem to work, you're not going to be working as hard as you can because you're not enjoying it.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #185029
#95. God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Ramakrishna

Wooden Quotes #189959
#96. With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #192266
#97. The genius of Cornell is that he sees and enables us to see with the eyes of childhood, before our vision got clouded by experience, when objects like a rubber ball or a pocket mirror seemed charged with meaning, and a marble rolling across a wooden floor could be as portentous as a passing comet.

John Ashbery

Wooden Quotes #192629
#98. So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #193000
#99. It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

John Wooden

Wooden Quotes #193160
#100. Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Bill Walton

Wooden Quotes #193786

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