"Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure."

-- Vince Lombardi

#Inspirational Quotes #Memories Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I think, therefore I'll think.”
“What are stories for if we don't learn from them?”
“I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.”
“Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.”
“We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.”
“When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.”
“It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.”
“The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for peopleâ€™s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin

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