Mountain Peaks Quotes

• You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Adversity, Vision

  "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

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• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Men, Hiking

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of ‘grand alpinisme’ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.

  Lionel Terray

  Climbing, Goal, Joy

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• The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

  John Muir

  Adventure, Mountain Ranges, Calm

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.187, Library of America

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• Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Mountain, Nations

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• I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

  Leslie Stephen

  Believe, Men, Climbing

  Leslie Stephen (2013). “The Playground of Europe”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed. Today it is a commonplace in all the leading universities. Peirce stood alone-a mountain peak whose absolute height might be hard to measure, but which towered above all the surrounding country.

  Julian Coolidge

  Country, Science, Research

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• The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

  Zig Ziglar

  Helping Others, Self, People

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• We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

  John Burroughs

  Mountain, Walks

  John Burroughs (2001). “Literary Values and Other Papers”, p.273, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Believe, Perfection

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

  Khalil Gibran

  Remembrance, Funeral, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. "I guess you think you're pretty great," The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. "And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you've grown so tall." "It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree, "It's just that you've stayed so small.

  Shel Silverstein

  Flower, Thinking, Talking

  Shel Silverstein, “The Oak And The Rose”

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• From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

  Petrarch

  Journey, Hiking, World

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• Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Clouds, Light

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1089, Library of Alexandria

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• Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

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• I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

  Peter Matthiessen (1992). “African Silences”, Vintage

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• In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Dream, Block, Night

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• Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Girl, Fall, Pages

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• I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.

  Steve Daines

  Climbing, Wyoming, Wife

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• Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains.

  Mao Zedong

  Song, Horse, Fall

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

  David Lereah

  Home, Levels, Great Depression

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• I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Winning

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