Vince Lombardi Quotes

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

The only failure is not trying.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Who never fell climbed high never low.

Not many people get up after a setback or two. But those who do make the impossible come true.