Vince Lombardi

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

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

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

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

I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lift human life above the level of farce and give it some of the grace of tragedy.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

How can one be well…when one suffers morally?

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.