Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.