Vince Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Be all you can be.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Living, love and death are one thing, not divisive, not separated, not divorced, not in the field of time but it is completely a living, moving thing, indivisible. And that is immortal.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Love is a great beautifier.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
I am your father.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Come, let us make love deathless.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you !
Do you like scary movies ?
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
You're tearing me apart !
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
Love, the irresistable desire to be irresistibly desired.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
My life is my message.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.