"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."
— John Wooden
Success Is Peace Of Mind Which
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.
About this quote
This is Wooden's formal definition of success, developed over years of coaching and published in Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court (1997). Wooden was deliberately dissatisfied with outcome-based definitions of success, which he viewed as both uncontrollable and misleading. His alternative — peace of mind derived from the knowledge that you gave maximum effort — detaches success from winning and locates it entirely in the quality of the effort.
Source
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court, 1997
