"The most important thingÂ in the Olympic GamesÂ 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."

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Source : "The Olympian". Book by Peter L. Dixon, 1984.

Pierre de Coubertin

#Struggle Quotes #Winning Quotes #Games Quotes

“Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.”

Source : Constantine P. Cavafy, “Ithaca”
“When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.”
“I know I'm unpopular.”
“Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.”
“Yet, after all, faith is not our righteousness. It is accounted to us in order to righteousness (Rom 4:5, GREEK), but not as righteousness; for in that case it would be a work like any other doing of man, and as such would be incompatible with the righteousness of the Son of God; the righteousness which is by faith. Faith connects us with the righteousness, and is therefore totally distinct from it. To confound the one with the other is to subvert the whole gospel of the grace of God. Our act of faith must ever be a separate thing from that which we believe.”
“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”
“The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.”
“A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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