Vince Lombardi Quotes

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.
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Achievement Entrepreneur Greatness Perfection Pursuit Success
Gentlemen, 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.
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Chase Excellemce Gentlemen Inspirational Life Perfection
Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
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Achievement Choose Entrepreneur Excellence Impossible Perfection
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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Inspirational Knowledge Lack Person Strength Success
No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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Battle Decide Dedication Leadership Sports Win
Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
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Ability Commitment Loyalty Motivational Pride Success
I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.
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Appreciate Discipline Heart Run Sports Worth
While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.
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Believe Motivational Past Sports Statistics
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Character Inspirational Measure Minimalism Satisfaction Simplicity
If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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Accomplishment Inspiraional Life Live Settle Success
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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Endure Inspirational Motivational Quality Spirit Win
Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.
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Forget Inspirational Learning Mistake Necessary Purpose
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Attain Excellence Inspirational Perfection
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Deep Failure Habit Inspirational One Liner Quit
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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Discipline Faith Inspirational Motivational Success Winner
The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Creation Happiness Joy Maintain One Liner
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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Discipline Faith Inspirational Motivational Success Winner
The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Creation Happiness Joy Maintain One Liner
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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Business Commitment Inspirational Success Team Work Togetherness
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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Dedication Inspirational Job Price Success Work Hard
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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Follow Inspirational Leadership Power Quality Spiritual
If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.
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Cheat Game Honesty Life Practice Yourself
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Football Life Perseverance Sacrifice Selfish Sports
Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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Action Character Deep Habit Inspirational
Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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Humanity Learning Mistake Necessary Patience Success
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Achievement Business Effort Organization Result Team Work
Mental toughness is a state of mind – you could call it character in action.
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