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.

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

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker upon the planet. Then all things are at risk.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.