Mary Kom quotes

“Never buy gold, simply earn it”
-- Mary Kom

#Gold Quotes

“I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.”
-- Mary Kom

#Opportunity Quotes #Careers Quotes #Support Quotes

“If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don`t give up,”
-- Mary Kom

#Mother Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”

Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

“Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.”

“On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

“Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.”

“Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.”

“It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.”

“Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.”

“A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.”

“Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.”

Source : "Gold is again proving its value in a risky world" by George Trefgarne, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2002.