The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
Pierre de Coubertin
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The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobi...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the in...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a ...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal ...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the spo...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Swifter, higher, stronger.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The six colours, including the white background, represent the colours of all the world's flags... t...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN All sports for all people.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult:...
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PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
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Arm! Advance!
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Gaily! gaily! closed o...
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PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Our friends, the enemy.
[Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]
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for one of our friends will certa...
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A little man all in gray;
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For me her constant flame appears;
The garland she hath cu...
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The parting hour is come!
And fast thy soul is fleeting
...
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JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own s...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No othe...
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We are quite naturally impatient in everything
...
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PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
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PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it an...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, ...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that h...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lo...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Siamo sinceri: noi nei nostri rapporti, tanto freddi quanto facili, chiamiamo felicità ciò che app...
LACLOS, PIERRE CHODERLOS DE The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, n...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necess...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The crimin...
PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS That which is not worth speaking they sing.
[Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Floria...
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Everything ends with songs.
[Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are!
[Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do...
PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.
(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'�...
PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold al...
PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS My family background was deeply Christian.
ABBE PIERRE And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
PIERRE LOTI It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative ...
ABBE PIERRE Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the cou...
PIERRE TRUDEAU To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
ABBE PIERRE It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
ABBE PIERRE Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
ABBE PIERRE I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
ABBE PIERRE Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
ABBE PIERRE Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
ABBE PIERRE Hope is not a matter of age.
ABBE PIERRE