Vince Lombardi Quotes

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Humans are creatures of habit. If you quit when things get tough, it gets that much easier to quit the next time. On the other hand, if you force yourself to push through it, the grit begins to grow in you.

I do believe that it's when you stop and give up that real failure takes place.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

Willpower is that thing CEOs and professional athletes tell us they used to make it to the top.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.