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

Quote by Pierre De Coubertin

Topics: Ambition Quotes, Life Quotes

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the...

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the...

All sports for all people.

All sports for all people.

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

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

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort,...

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

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

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

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life,...

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.