As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered.
VINCE LOMBARDIOne 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.
More Vince Lombardi Quotes
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Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.
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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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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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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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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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Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable.
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Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process.
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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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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
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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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Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.
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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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You defeat defeatism with confidence.
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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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The joy is in creating, not maintaining.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
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There’s only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.
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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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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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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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Many more things would be accomplished if we didn’t consider them impossible.
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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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