Vince Lombardi

It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.

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 only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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

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

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

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

The city is recruited from the country.

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.