Life Lessons Quote by John Wooden — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

“After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.”

“Look up. It’s a lesson I have had to keep relearning.”

“Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up”

“The journey to success requires taking the right steps. Stop and reflect. Be resilient enough to continue until you get there.”

“Time may not be on your side, but if you decide to maximize the time you have now, prioritize your tasks, make every second count, and do not waste any minute under your watch, you will succeed in life.”

“We experience, while still young, our most thoroughly felt desires as a kind of horizon, see life as divided into what lies on this side of that horizon and what lies on the other, as if we only had to reach that horizon and fall into it in order for everything to change, in order to once and for all transcend the world as we have known it, though in the end this transcendence never actually comes, of course, a fact one began to appreciate only as one got older, when one realized there was always more life on the other side of desire's completion, that there was always waking up, working, eating, and sleeping, the slow passing of time that never ends, when one realized that one can never truly touch the horizon because life always goes on, because each moment bleeds into the next and whatever one considered the horizon of one's life turns out always to be yet another piece of earth.”