The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
Related topics: Motivational Perseverance
Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
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It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
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.
- Vince Lombardi
Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
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.
- Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing.
You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while,
you do them right all the time.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you've got to have is faith and discipline
when you're not yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
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