His Own Effort Quotes by Pierre de Coubertin

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Pierre de Coubertin has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.
• Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of…
• Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
• All sports for all people.
• Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
• For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement
• Swifter, higher, stronger.
• The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this…
• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.
• A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
• Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

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