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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
― Lord Acton

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”
― Vince Lombardi

“I always felt that our triumphs were an expression of the consistent application of discipline.”
― Alex Ferguson, Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

“Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”
― Vince Lombardi

“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
― Eric Hoffer

“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.”
― Vince Lombardi

“There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.”
― Vince Lombardi

“football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
― vince lombardi

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.”
― Vince Lombardi

“No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewise.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Memory is the scribe of the soul”
― Aristotle

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.”
― Plato

“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.”
― Alex Ferguson, Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

“Don’t play the occasion, play the game.”
― Alex Ferguson, Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Losing is a powerful management tool so long as it does not become a habit.”
― Alex Ferguson, Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Lest we forget:

It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane”
― Mirza Ghalib