Vince Lombardi Quotes

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

The force of character is cumulative.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.