If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
VINCE LOMBARDIIndividual 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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No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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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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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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There is no substitute for work.
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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.
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We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.
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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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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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Praise in public; criticize in private.
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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’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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They do not truly love who do not show their love.
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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind-you could call it character in action.
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