The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ...
by Vince Lombardi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi

Related topics: Motivational Perseverance

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- 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

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- 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

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

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

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

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- 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

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

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

A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

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

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie