Vince Lombardi

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.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

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

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.

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.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Sympathetic people often don’t communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.

All diseases run into one, old age.

When the eye is not set on one leaf and you face the tree with nothing in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.