Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
VINCE LOMBARDIIt’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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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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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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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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Mental toughness is essential to success.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
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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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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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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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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time.
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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.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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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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I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.
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One’s desire, not ability, determines success.
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You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.
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