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“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”
Vince Lombardi
“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”
Vince Lombardi
“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.”
Vince Lombardi
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
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 got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.”
Vince Lombardi
“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
Vince Lombardi
“The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.”
Vince Lombardi
“I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?”
Vince Lombardi
“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.”
Vince Lombardi
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
John Lubbock
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
John Lubbock
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
John Lubbock
“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”
John Lubbock
“We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.”
John Lubbock
“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
John Lubbock
“Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.”
John Lubbock
“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.”
John Lubbock
“Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.”
John Lubbock
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”
John Lubbock
“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
John Lubbock
“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”
John Lubbock
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
James Russell Lowell
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.”
James Russell Lowell
“Light is the symbol of truth.”
James Russell Lowell
“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”
James Russell Lowell
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
James Russell Lowell
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
James Russell Lowell
“Fate loves the fearless.”
James Russell Lowell
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.”
James Russell Lowell