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.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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

All sports for all people.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

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.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

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.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

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

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

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

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

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.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

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

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

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.

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.

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

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

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

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

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Much effort, much prosperity.

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.