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.
VINCE LOMBARDIGentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.
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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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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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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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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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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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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one’s mind.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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