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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.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Achievement Born Goals Inspirational Leadership Motivational
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
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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Business Dedication Habit Motivational Success Win
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Inspirational Life Love Success
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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Battle Believe Heart Inspirational Man Moments
Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.
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Dedication Inspirational Prepare Will Win Work Hard
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
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Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.
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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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Injury Motivational Pray Sports Thankful Win
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
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Accomplishment Dictionary Motivational Price Success Work Hard
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Confidence Contagious Lack Leadership Motivational
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
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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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
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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Character Discipline Explanation Leadership Quality Sacrifice

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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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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