Vince Lombardi

It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.

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.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will.

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

Some people are stuck on who I was that who I am never even had a chance.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love’s light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.