Vince Lombardi

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.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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

Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge.

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.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

All colors will agree in the dark.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities – a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

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

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?