Vince Lombardi

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

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

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

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.

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.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. [Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur.]

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.