Vince Lombardi

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.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

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

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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

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

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Rest in reason; move in passion.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

We are wiser than we know.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.