Eileen Gu on inspiring young people

The opportunity to help inspire millions of young people where my mom was born, during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Winter Games is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help promote the sport I love.  Through skiing, I hope to unite people, promote common understanding, create communication, and forge friendships between nations.  If I can help to inspire one young girl to break a boundary, my wishes will have come true.

~ Eileen Feng Gu, women's freestyle skiing big air gold medalist, Beijing Winter Olympics, February 7, 2022 (quote from June 6, 2019 Instagram post)

Denis Waitley on overcoming adversity

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.  Failure is delay, not defeat.  It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.  Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

~ Denis Waitley

(Congratulations, Annemiek van Vleuten, on one of the most incredible comebacks in sports.  After a horrific crash in the 2016 Rio Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's individual time trial in Toyko at the age of 38.)

Tokyo Olympics - July 28, 2021

Genevieve Roch-Decter on resourcefulness

I take inspiration from Tony Robbins' words: "It's not resources that counts, it's being resourceful."

~ Genevieve Roch-Decter

Pablo Picasso on work ethic

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. 

~ Pablo Picasso

John Burroughs on words and deeds

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

~ John Burroughs, American naturalist