Gold Quotes - Page 6

• I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

  Celine Dion

  Two, Records, Oscars

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• The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Work, Eye, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.297, e-artnow

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• I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Hands, Liberty, Quality

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

  John Keats

  Travel, America, Kingdoms

  'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' (1817)

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• I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

  Dan O'Brien

  Motivational, Athlete, Men

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  Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Friendship, Basketball, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

  Jean Paul

  Beauty, Men, Literature

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• 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

  Success, Sports, Accomplishment

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Girl

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• No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

  Mae West

  Jewels, Digging, May

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

  Byron Katie

  Truth Is, Findings, Mines

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• You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

  Jim Steinman

  Beach, Sandy

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• She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

  Jerry Reed

  Relationship, Drinking, Divorce

  Song: She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft

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• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

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• As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

  Peter Snell

  Motivational, Teenager, Athlete

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• Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

  David Ricardo

  Air, Water, Use

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

  Antonio Davis

  Stupid, Winning, Games

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• Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

  Allan Sloan

  Mediocrity, Columns, Constant

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• All that is gold does not glitter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Being Strong, Travel, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Winning, Transition, Three

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• In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

  Nicholas Deak

  Running, Long, Paper

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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Humor

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