Vince Lombardi

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

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

We run to win, not just to be in the race.

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.

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 difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

I’m so optimistic, I’d go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.

Dream big and kick ass.

If you haven’t found it yet keep looking.

Risk-taking is the cornerstone of empires.

Sometimes understanding other people’s problems is the key to finding opportunities.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.