Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

About John Wooden

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John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row....

More quotations from John Wooden

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

—William Butler Yeats

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way—that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

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The birds are molting. If only man could molt also—his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

—H. L. Mencken

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