John Wooden Effort Quotations

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

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.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

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.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.