Best 602 quotes in «champion quotes» category

Hers is a timeless life weaving through other longer lives like a flash of lightning in a clouded evening sky.

I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered, a load that made the entire neighborhood smell like a dairy barn for weeks.

I feel the pulse of our bond and history and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. 'Hi,' he says. 'I'm Daniel.' 'Hi,' I reply. 'I'm June.

I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn't have. That's why I'm sorry. I'm sorry because you shouldn't have to be everything to me. I had you, but I'd forgotten that I had myself too. It's a new feeling, something I'm still getting used to.

I reach out to touch one of the walls, imagining that I can feel his life and warmth through it, and I look around again, up toward the rooftops and then all the way to the night sky where a few faint stars can be seen, and there I think I really can see him. I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.

If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.

If you're looking for the easy challenge, you're not cut out for success.

I'm a lover not a fighter. But when I have to fight, I fight to win. There cannot be another outcome.

I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me

I know you don't love me that way. Don't you think I know that by now? But you don't know how I feel about you. No one does." "Tell me, then." "Day, you mean more to me than some crush. When the entire world turned its back on me and left me to die, you took me in. You were the person that cared about what might happen to me. You were everything. Everything. You became my entire family - you were my parents and my siblings and my caretaker, my only friend and companion, you were both my protector and someone who needed protecting. You see? I didn't love you in the way you might've thought I did, although I can't deny that was part of it. But the way I feel goes beyond that.

I needed a Champion. So, I became one! Fulfill the requirements of your own requirements.

Magnus Bane,” said Magnus. “High Warlock of Brooklyn and Scrabble champion.

It doesn't matter how far down you fall as long as you can still look up and see the stars.

It is better to be a king in the jungle and be celebrated than to be an unknown champion where you’d not be afforded the kind of respect you deserve.

I took an oath June. I am still bound by that oath. I will die with honor for sacrificing everything I have-everything-for my country.. And yet, Day is a legend, while I am to be executed." His voice finally breaks with all his anger and inner torment, the injustice he feels. "It makes no sense." I stand up. Behind me, guards move toward the cell door. "You're wrong," I say sadly. "It makes perfect sense." "Why?" "Because Day chose to walk in the light." I turn my back on him for the last time. The door opens; the cell's bars make way for the hall, a new rotation of prison guards, freedom. "And so did Metias.

Losing from Champion is not that much Mournful, As Winning from Champion is, 'PROUD AS PEACOCK'.

Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.

Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That’s only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds – as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.

It is only our dedication towards our passion that distinguishes a champion from the crowd.

Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.

My life became the lives of Day and June, and through them I saw my own fears, hopes and aspirations play out across their canvas. Now I've reached the point where our stories diverge. They are off to live beyond the confines of the trilogy; I am left waving to them from the sidelines. I don't know where they'll go but I think they're going to be okay.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.

One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll}

The mark of a champion is the ability to win when things are not quite right – when you’re not playing well and your emotions are not the right ones.

The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la médaille pour tout collier)

The greater the cross you bear the greater the crown you'll wear.

Rising amateurs always intimidate falling masters.

Some champions are born; others are forged!

Sometimes it's important to dare to dream - small or big - like Mandela, Gandhi, Winfrey, Obama, Malala and Dr King. From Einstein to Hawking - the skies no limit. From Ali to the Williams sisters - through trials and talent find the champions within. Like my mother did to raise great kids. Like the one or many who run with this. Like the unsung heroes in every city and village. Like the kind of heart and selfless healers. Like every act of kindness you ever did and received. Like the human spirit beyond class, colour and creed. Like every soul who has raised our consciousness. From one to all - love IS all we have and need.

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.

Success is sweet, especially when your enemies thought nothing good can come out of your life again.

The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond.

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

This is what I’m for. This moment.", FADE by Kailin Gow

There are many players in the game, but only a handful of champions.

There's no question that the Republic has done some horrible things to us all, that they might still be doing those things. But... maybe I've also been seeing the things I want to see. Maybe now that the old elector is gone, the Republic's soldiers have started to shed their masks too.

The purpose is to become the best writer in my category (yes, page for page and pound for pound).

There are people that are to champion the campaign and advocacy against the cycle of ungodliness and injustice in every nation.

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one". I love that scene. That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again. That's fighting.

The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim. Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb. Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings. Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.

True champions, like the sun, cannot be eclipsed for long.

To be the greatest; great test.

Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.

Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously.

Truth is a sport, and winner takes it all. The upcoming truth is under construction.

To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.

Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.

What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?