Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Persistence

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.
- Vince Lombardi
In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else’s play.
- Vince Lombardi
I hold it more important to hold the player’s confidence than their affection.
- Vince Lombardi
We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
- Vince Lombardi
They call it coaching, but it is teaching. You do not just tell them it is so, but you show them the reasons why it is so and you repeat and repeat until they are convinced, until they know.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn’t a sometime thing; it’s an all-the-time thing.
- Vince Lombardi
I would say that the quality of each man’s life is the full measure of that man’s commitment of excellence and victory – whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.
- Vince Lombardi
Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
- Vince Lombardi
To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
- Vince Lombardi
Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.
- Vince Lombardi