Cultivation Quote by Pierre de Coubertin Download Open image “Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.” — Pierre de Coubertin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cultivation Effort Habitual Hard work Sports
“Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole person, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Sport teaches you about commitment and to dedicate yourself. Whether you make it to the top or not, sport gives you great skills that… — Jenny Meadows Copy Share Image
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
Sports are fundamental for growing in a healthy way: they represent fair competition, strength, and exercise, which enhance the body's healthy balance and strengthen… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
A better world could be brought about only by better individuals. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
“...the important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete…not victory but combat…not to have vanquished but to have fought well…not winning… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture… — George Will Copy Share Image
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
![“The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the…” quote by Pierre de Coubertin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b6a/pierre-de-coubertin-14070_backgrounds_the-olympic-flag-has-a-white-background_862336.jpg)
