Pierre de Coubertin famous quotes

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Joy #Humanity #Understanding

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Fighting #Winning #Aquariums

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Mind #Quality #Body

The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Blue #Yellow #White

A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#World #Individual

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Strength #Essence #Humans

All sports for all people.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #People

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Struggle #Winning #Games

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Games #Olympics #World

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Victory #Important #Life Is

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Games #Humanity #Springtime

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Improvement #Individual

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Mean #Hands #Games

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Giving Up #Fighting #Essentials

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Respect #Educational #Effort

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Athlete #Games #Olympics

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Equality #Bases

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Loyalty #Oath

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Class #Youth

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#White #Color #World

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Reality #Ideas #Giving

Swifter, higher, stronger.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Work #Appreciate #Stronger

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Inspirational #Struggle #Important

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Ambition #Effort #Festivals

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Race #Age #Olympic Spirit

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Effort #Cultivation

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Law #Decline

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Winning #Olympics #Medal

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Men #Heritage

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Games #Generations #World

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Men #Class

In the name of all competitors, I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Leadership #Sports #Team

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Luxury #Way

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Religious #Sentimental

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Thinking #Vanity #Effort

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Play #Roles

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Sports #Country #People

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.
-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Religious #Thinking #Trying