Champion Quotes

“Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always.

"I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you."

"I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
― Tim Fargo

“Clouds suit my mood just fine.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“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.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.”
― Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step

“I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”
― Mia Hamm

“Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.”
― Tim Fargo

“She could forgive the girl who had needed a captain of the guard to offer stability after a year in hell; forgive the girl who had needed a captain to be her champion. But she was her own champion now.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.”
― Kirk Mango

“Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.”
― Marie Lu, Champion

“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“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.”
― Kirk Mango

“For success put your energy over which you have control. Do not drain your energy to the things over which you have no control.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“Queen always seemed to me to be manufactured championship music—designed to be played in stadiums to get fans hyped up about paying money to watch other men play a child’s game. With songs like We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions, they were the pep rally of pop rock.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress not the results.”
― Nick Saban

“You will emerge as a champion if you believe in your dreams, because champions do not down their tools until they win.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams

“The desire to win is what is making us all lose.”
― Anamikos

“Mom looked like this might make her cry. And maybe she would. Mom could cry while doing just about anything. She was a champion weeper. I don't know who gives out awards for this kind of thing, but Mom could win awards. I have seen her weep while vacuuming, I have seen her sob while standing in front of the microwave waiting for peas to defrost I have seen her break down in the mailman's arms. She even cried once while eating ice cream...”
― Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

“Look at the decisions you make through the lens of a champion and ask yourself if they are going to turn you into an inspiration. Keep in mind that prevailing circumstances do not limit champions. They go out and create the future they envision.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind

“Rise like a champion who was knocked down multiple times, but chose to get back up one more time.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes