Gold Inspiration 1
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
-Mahatma Gandhi
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
-Mahatma Gandhi
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
-Bob Marley
I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.
-Sidney Crosby
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
-Christopher Columbus
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
-Dan Gable
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
-Christopher Columbus
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
-Angela Ruggiero
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
-Democritus
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
-Leo Tolstoy
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
-Martin Luther
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
-Rumi
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
-Joseph Parry
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
-C. J. Cherryh
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
-Harriet Tubman
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
-Alan Greenspan
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
-Thomas More
I don't know where my first gold medal is.
-Shaun White
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
-P. T. Barnum
Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.
-Michael Johnson
During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in the '80s and '90s, it goes without saying that Pakistan would have bagged a plethora of medals through us at these games. And yes, the ultimate prize would have been an Olympic gold.
-Jahangir Khan
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
-Adam Smith
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
-Euripides
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
-Jesse Owens
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
-John Burroughs
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
-Napoleon Hill
Love is the only gold.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
-Samuel Johnson
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
-Karen Black
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.
-Mary Elizabeth Lease
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
-Hernan Cortes
Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.
-Charles Perrault
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
-David Ricardo
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
-Wilma Rudolph
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-Plato
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
-Jesse Owens
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
-Jeff Bezos
If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique. -Jewel
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