John Wooden Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

• Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

  John Wooden

  Art, Goal, Effort

• The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Moving

• The purpose is to help, to prevent, to correct, to improve, rather than to punish. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal is improvement.

  John Wooden

  Goal, Criticism, Purpose

• I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Ambition, Goal

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success”, p.99, Revell

• The leader has to command the respect of all those under his supervision - and he must be open to those under his supervision. Effective leadership means having a lot of people working toward a common goal. And when you have that with no one caring who gets the credit, you're going to accomplish a lot. If you have those just wanting the credit for themselves, you're not going to get as much accomplished.

  John Wooden

  Mean, Caring, People

  Source: money.cnn.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

• If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

  John Wooden

  Goal, Going Away, Failing

• Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

  John Wooden

  Wrestling, Organization, Goal

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

• We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

  John Wooden

  Integrity, Ambition, Sacrifice

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

• For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

  John Wooden

  Fun, Athlete, Goal

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

• The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Country, Jobs

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.28, McGraw-Hill Professional

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