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.

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.

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.

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

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

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the do’er, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?