Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
VINCE LOMBARDIMost 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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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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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to 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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We don’t pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.
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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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