Live as if you were living already for the second time.
VINCE LOMBARDIMost important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won.
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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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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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There is no substitute for work.
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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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Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
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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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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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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
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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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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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Character is the direct result of mental attitude.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.
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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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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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