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.

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.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.