Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
VINCE LOMBARDIMental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Second place is meaningless. You can’t always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been – that you were never beaten – that time just ran out on you.
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Beat your opponent where he is strongest, and you demoralize him.
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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
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Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don’t do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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.
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If you really want something , you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.
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Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.
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