Gold Quotes - Page 22

• You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Training, Week

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• Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive but less sensuous, becomes more prayerful and less sexual. And your body also starts taking on a different vibe. You become more graceful, softer, more feminine, less aggressive, more receptive.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Vegetarianism, Space

  "From R to Z".

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• Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

  Hilda Doolittle

  Cities, Venice, Towers

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.556, New Directions Publishing

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• I thank God for having given the Company subjects who belong more to Him than to themselves, and who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives! They are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Fire, Risk

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Jewels, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

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• And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

  John Steinbeck

  Jewels, Greed, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

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• Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Iron, Slavery, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.453, Manonmani Publishers

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• Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

  Patrick Ewing

  Education, Winning, Ncaa

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• He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Girl, Cutting, Garden

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Islands, Light, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.155, Broadview Press

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• A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

  Willard Scott

  Inspirational, Retirement, Productive Life

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• So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

  Al Oerter

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Leadership, Sports, New York

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• You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Moving, Way, Dirt

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• Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

  Thomas Traherne

  Kings, Delight, World

  "Centuries of Meditations".

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• October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dying, Here And There, Gone

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1897). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

  George Soros

  Assets, Ultimate, Bubbles

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• Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul's research is extraordinary; his writing is taut, elegant, and insightful; and he captures both the hilarity and pain that made Richard Pryor such a towering figure.

  Debby Applegate

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Night, Darkness, Dawn

  "Stray Birds".

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• Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wings, Bird, Soar

  Rabindranath Tagore (1949). “Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore”

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• Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Ocean, Hard Work

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• Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

  Bill Burr

  Men, Wife, Gold Digger

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• If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
  And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
  Would you hear my voice come through the music
  Would you hold it near as it were your own?

  Robert Hunter

  Sunshine, Voice, Tunes

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.

  Banksy

  Men, Awards, House

  "Banksy Request to Appear at the Oscars in Disguise Rejected" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2011.

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• We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Personality, Alchemist, Needs

  Daath Gnosis, Samael Aun Weor (2014). “The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of the Tarot and Kabalah (Bilingual)”, p.69, Lulu.com

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