John Wooden Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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 purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Discipline, Purpose

• 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

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