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.

Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

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

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.

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

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man’s use more than his own.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

A man is a god in ruins.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Syllables govern the world.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided