John Wooden
Person on 2 sites
American basketball coach (1910 to 2010), at UCLA from 1948 to 1975, where his teams won ten national titles; earlier an English teacher in South Bend, Indiana.
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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12 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Success is peace of mind from knowing you made the effort to do the best you are capable of (opens korrents.com)
“From those things, and one other perhaps, I coined my own definition of success, which is: Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.”
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Others cannot judge your success: only you know whether you did your best (opens korrents.com)
“If you make the effort to do the best of which you're capable, trying to improve the situation that exists for you, I think that's success, and I don't think others can judge that”
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Character, what you really are, matters much more than reputation, what you are perceived to be (opens korrents.com)
“your reputation is what you're perceived to be; your character is what you really are. And I think that character is much more important than what you are perceived to be.”
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Success is peace of mind from knowing you made the effort to do the best you are capable of (opens korrents.com)