Vince Lombardi

Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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.

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

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone… I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.