"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."

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Source : "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

Wilma Rudolph

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Running Quotes

“Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.”
“True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.”
“I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.”
“my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.”
“Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.”
“Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.”
“In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.”

Source : "Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community". Book by Christopher Alexander (Foreword), 1996.
“I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.”

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