Vince Lombardi

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

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

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

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . And since the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Spirit is God . . . then unless the Father, Son and Spirit are three distinct Nothings, they must be three distinct Substances, and consequently three distinct Gods.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

The quieter you become, you more you are able to hear.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!