Summit Quotes

• Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Clouds, Mountain

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• You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

  Jim Whittaker

  Nature, Pain, Mountain

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• If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Dream, Wish, Endurance

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• Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

  Greg Child

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

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• Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Struggle, Glimpse, Sides

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• The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

  Tristan Tzara

  Depth

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• The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Adversity, Joy, Mountain

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• When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tiny, Stills

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• The summit is just a halfway point.

  Ed Viesturs

  Climbing, Halfway

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• The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Giving, Pleasure

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• Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Climbing, Growth

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• We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wings, Feet, Progress

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination.  It is a continuing upward spiral of progress.  It is perpetual growth.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Success, Journey

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• Truth is the summit of being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Truth Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.330, Modern Library

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• It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

  Gustav Mahler

  Pathways, Steps, Conquer

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• Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Climbing, Valleys, Firsts

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• Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Reality, Simplicity, May

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place.

  Barry Goldwater

  Doe, Diplomats, Succeed

  "Goldwater from A to Z: a critical handbook".

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• Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Ascent, Consciousness

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

  Jack London

  Alive, Paradox, Mark

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.

  May Sarton

  Crush, Light, Perception

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• There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Journey, Path, Harmony

  "You Can Save the Earth: 7 Reasons Why and 7 Simple Ways, a Philosophy for the Future". Book by Hatherleigh, Sean K. Smith, and Andrew Flach, p. 92, 2008.

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• A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Men, Flags

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

  Barbara Mertz

  Determination, May, Littles

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