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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
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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
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- 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 quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- 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
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- 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
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
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
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
- Samuel Goldwyn
I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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