Vince Lombardi

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

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

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

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

If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

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 best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Live, let live, and help live

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

What is once well done is done forever.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity. The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.