Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the Olympic Spirit Group is officially licensed by the International Olympic Committee to design, develop and manage Olympic Spirit Centers worldwide.
Olympic Spirit seeks to be an icon of Olympic values and ideals, to inspire and motivate the youth of the world to be the best they can be and to contribute to building a peaceful and better world in the Olympic Spirit which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
Olympic Spirit initiatives are underway in Canada (Vancouver hosts the 2010 Olympic Winter Games), London (host of the 2012 Olympic Games), Japan, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.
Famous quotes containing the words olympic, spirit and/or group:
“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“When the spirit brings light into our minds, it dispels darkness. We see it, as we do that of the sun at noon, and need not the twilight of reason to show it us. This light from heaven is strong, clear, and pure carries its own demonstration with it; and we may as naturally take a glow-worm to assist us to discover the sun, as to examine the celestial ray by our dim candle, reason.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)
“Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)