Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Persistence

Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
- Vince Lombardi
Gentleman, this is a football.
- Vince Lombardi
When you’re tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, I’m too tired; I’m bushed; I can’t do this; I’ll loaf. Then you’re a coward.
- Vince Lombardi
Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
- Vince Lombardi
Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.
- Vince Lombardi
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it – his mind, his body, his heart – what’s life worth to him?
- Vince Lombardi
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
- Vince Lombardi
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
- Vince Lombardi
You defeat defeatism with confidence.
- Vince Lombardi
Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
- Vince Lombardi