Vince Lombardi

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

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

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.